UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Maureen Fiedler | Sep. 4, 2014 NCR Today
Here he goes again! Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has sounded off once more about the shortcomings of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Some of his comments this time are so off the mark, it’s humorous. For example, he says LCWR members “do not represent all U.S. nuns, but just a group of North American nuns who form part of an association.” Just a group? LCWR represents 80 percent of American congregations of women religious. That’s four out of five, Cardinal Müller, not “just a group.”
In an apparent attempt to appeal to the feminists among us, he says, “Above all we have to clarify that we are not misogynists, we don’t want to gobble up a woman a day!” That’s really big of you, Cardinal Müller, but it’s hardly the point. Women are not interested in evading your dinner table.
We are interested in being your equals in the church and being treated as such. This phrasing is simply insulting.
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