Maureen Dowd slams Bishops over nuns, Vicki Kennedy snub

Is "the Church" its architecture - hierarchy - or faithful? Or multi-national corporation with infinitesimal turnover of tax exempt remittances. As in politics, economy dic[k]tates [my]theology. Someone once said: "I had a very good Catholic education. It took me a lifetime to get over it!" As a citizen of an island nation granted to the English crown by a medieval papal bull to be 'Christianised', I am acutely aware of of the perniciousness of religious colonisation, and its temporal concommitant. Roman Catholicism (no more than any other Christian orthodoxy) isn't Christian, its theologised Constantinianism. Free your minds. Read the Gnostic Gospels!

Briano so my comment doesn't go to someone else.

Did any one read the article? if they did then they would know It's a Kennedy puff piece. Poor Vicki she only had to put up with Teddy and His wealth, until he died then she only had to put up with his wealth. We in Massachusetts have been putting up with this arrogant behavior for years. It's time to snub miss anti America dowd. and by the way she hates free Ireland as well.

Maureen would slice her own mothers throat if she dared speak against her most precious liberal democrats. She does not even have a nodding acquaintance with truth. There is a great difference between social issues and moral Issues- working with the poor is a social issue and unrestricted abortion is a moral Issues and the Church has not wavered on moral Issues even if some liberal democrat "catholics" have.

I am so turned off by the catholic Church and bishops. My sister hs been a sister of St. Joseph for 56 years. She is devasteted by thie attack from the Vatican. I alwso have a cousin a sister of Mercy who runs a homeless sheltert in Maryland. she said she feels like she has been kicked in the stomach. we have too many bishops and not enough nuns.

Mr. James O'Shea, what are you thinking? Why are you placing Maureen Dowd on a pedestal? Is it because you are a rebellious lad and are looking for an excuse to bash the Church? You are not only rebellious but also hilarious! So, Miss Dowd is now some kind of an authority regarding the Church? How so? It shows your hilarity to choose someone as rebellious as you to be the voice of criticism toward the Church. I suppose if your local sports columnist waxes poetic about abortion, you will print it. To be consistent, and consistently hilarious, you should.

Well, she sure has my vote for Canonization!!! just do not want her to ever die, as she is a truly living Saint of reality who gives the people the TRUE MESSAGE of Faith and Hope!!!!

This is the same Church that put Galileo on trial. You would think our hierarchy would learn. Apparently not. They continue even in this day and age to ignore reality.

"I think Irish Central sucks with their continual Catholic bashing bulls--t." - mikehoulihan. Yet here you are, again, to offer the same three second estimation. It's not anyone else's fault if you haven't developed the power of critical thinking, mikehoulihan. And because you haven't everything you encounter looks like an attack. Stay home and study up. Save your foul language for your own home too, eh?

many years ago the Catholic church had its own prisons usually under monastery's where dissenters were imprisoned in solitary confinement sometimes for life. Now the Pope and his fawning right wing bishops can only try to gag those with a contra view.The Church has made little progress since the inquisition only its methods have changed.

I to a certain degree believe much of what ballylanger says except I do believe their is a God. BUT what I also believe is that most religions have become the same money changers that Jesus chased out of the church. For example a Religion (Catholic) who is the richest religion in the world yet lives of the backs of some of the poorest countries in the world and treats women badly and criminally abuses children. A religion who ordains almost everyone in their employ so that they can make ALL of their buildings tax free and the ministers can live in mansions all while their congregation struggles. A religion who twist their faith and uses their under educated followers to declare other infedels and become sucide bombers, stone women and girls, fight battles where they hide behind their own mosques, hospitals, schools and villages of innocent people. ALL religions have gotten to where they twist their holy books to excuse their horrible behavior. What many people forget weather you believe in God or not their are two Golden Rules: 1. Treat others the way you want to be treated 2. To get respect you have to give respect. It's not yours because of the postion you are in or you age. You get respect when you are a respectful person.

Good for her !!!

If I could escape from the Catholic Church after 24 years of education in Catholic schools and seminaries culminating with ordination to the priesthood and a teaching position in a Catholic seminary, almost anyone can. I'm not selling anything or telling people how to live their lives. All I want to do is to help people to free themselves from the tyranny and stupidity of the Roman Catholic church, by exposing the truth about this very human, very dishonest organization at a site you can find by Googling "Jesuswouldbefurious" or "CatholicArrogance" (one word).

'God' is just a nasty little money-making scam that we perpetrate upon each other. How can it be difficult for an adult human to understand this concept. It does my head in to have to read 'conversations' here as if religion was REAL!

@PiperMac52 - When (if?) you read your bible, the RED PRINT is what Jesus taught. He rejected the stoning of the adultress and told the crowd of sinners to leave her. He counseled her to sin no more. He said that God made the LAW (Leviticus, Deuteronomy, etc.) to serve the people. He said that He did not make the people to serve the Law. I think the Nun in charge of the Women Religous organization said it best. She said that the church teaches that one's conscience should be the ultimate guide to one's actions. If you are ordered to do something that your conscience knows is evil, then you must obey your conscience, according to the church. She said that is what the nuns are doing. She said that she had been ordered to be silent before and that her conscience had directed her to continue to speak out. She said that the church could not silence a nun or priest who refused to be silenced based on their conscience. The Monsignor being tried for covering up and moving known serial pedophiles gave as his excuse that he was just following orders! I believe we elderly folk have heard that excuse before and shuddered and its toll. I personally stand with those who are guided by a sense of right and wrong rather than blind obedience to any totalitarian regieme.