Also: JZ, may I post that quote of Matilda's on my Tumblr? I will attribute it to "one of my favorite kidlings". (Wait, how old is Matilda nowadays?)
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Apr 19, 2012 8:40:13 am PDT #1643 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
DavidS - Apr 19, 2012 8:46:30 am PDT #1644 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also: JZ, may I post that quote of Matilda's on my Tumblr?
Since she's busy at work so I'll grant parental consent.
I will attribute it to "one of my favorite kidlings". (Wait, how old is Matilda nowadays?)
You can use her name if you want. She's 5 and a half.
Atropa - Apr 19, 2012 8:47:05 am PDT #1645 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Whoo, thank you, David!
Amy - Apr 19, 2012 9:05:33 am PDT #1646 of 30001
Because books.
Is the Criminal Minds with Frankie Muniz one of the really disturbing ones? I just turned it on.
Allyson - Apr 19, 2012 9:19:31 am PDT #1647 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oh hey, so the Vatican continues on its current trajectory toward turning its back on the flock:
“I’m stunned,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby founded by sisters. Her group was also cited in the Vatican document, along with the Leadership Conference, for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage.
And while the Vatican was investigating the Leadership Conference, the Vatican was also conducting a separate, widespread investigation of all women’s religious orders and communities in the United States.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2012 9:22:07 am PDT #1648 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
the Vatican was also conducting a separate, widespread investigation of all women’s religious orders and communities in the United States.
Investigating them for what? Not enough poverty and celibacy?
Jessica - Apr 19, 2012 9:23:16 am PDT #1649 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage.
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
Gudanov - Apr 19, 2012 9:25:02 am PDT #1650 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Investigating them for what?
Getting too uppity.
Consuela - Apr 19, 2012 9:28:55 am PDT #1651 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
Yeah. The National Catholic Reporter is all over this, since the nuns have been in disagreement with the bishops on a lot of stuff in recent years.
At some point I wouldn't be surprised to see the American Catholic Church sever itself from the Vatican: American Catholics have more in common with Episcopalians & British Anglicans than we do with the more traditional parts of the Roman Catholic Church.
JZ - Apr 19, 2012 9:34:12 am PDT #1652 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Investigating them for what?
Getting too uppity.
Pretty much. It's supposedly a neutral study on the current state of the daily lives of individual women religious and of their communities in the US, in order to better address the needs of the communities, but nobody believes that and there's been *tons* of bitching within the Catholic press about it since it was first announced at least a year ago.
I almost wish the news about it hadn't leaked out to the general press -- as long as the pushback was coming from within it made the hierarchy's disconnect from our lives much clearer, and made those members of the hierarchy who were supposed to be leading the investigation very squeamish and willing to ask questions and join the pushback; there's a big part of me that's worried that with pressure and scorn from without - even as richly as it's deserved - the hierarchy is just going to hunker down and double down and whine about how misunderstood and persecuted they are, and the fence-sitters within the Church who'd been waffling on the investigation are going to side with the hierarchy out of sheer tribalism.
A plague on them all. Except the actual women religious, because nuns rock.