Maureen Dowd Is an Idiot
2nd May 2012
Rod Dreher brings the heat.
Honestly, Maureen Dowd writing about anything having to do with religion is about like me writing about the storm and stress of the PGA Tour. In her column, she recycles every tired cliche about the Mean Old Men of the Vatican picking on the Poor, Defenseless Church Ladies. Even though the Vatican report is publicly available information, Dowd never once mentions the main reasons for the Vatican investigation into the nun group nor does she bring up the fact that the Vatican did not investigate all American nuns, only those who had substituted radical feminism and related ideologies for Catholic doctrine.
May 3rd, 2012 at 09:17
“Maureen Dowd Is an Idiot” – now there’s a topic that could go on forever. She seems to have all the intellectual depth of your average mud puddle.
May 3rd, 2012 at 09:57
Who honestly cares what the Vatican does or does not do with ‘its’ nuns? The nuns knew–or at least should have known–what they signed up for when they joined that medieval institution. Tim used to describe the Navy as “200 years of tradition unhampered by progress”; ditto times 10 for the church.
At the end of the day the heirarchical and paternalistic nature of the church is just not compatible with the egaltarian zeitgeist of Americans. I’m not surprised that the Pope stepped on the nuns; I’m surprised that there even are any American nuns in the first place.
May 3rd, 2012 at 14:30
Dennis, if you’re going to be insulting, you might as well get it right. The Catholic church is *not* a medieval institution.
It is a pre-medieval institution.
May 4th, 2012 at 06:15
It’s not an insult if it’s true.
And though the church may have started before the Middle Ages, the institution we see today was calcified somewhere between 750 and 1200 and hasn’t changed appreciably since.