Commentary: On health care reform, it is time to listen to the nuns

Rick C.
Willmar, MN     03/25/2010 11:16 AM

With all disrespect to you Karen, No I didn't.

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Karen T.
Willmar, MN     03/21/2010 12:13 PM

Rick C., why is it, with all due... DISRESPECT?, in my opinion...his comment(Stupaks) does he, Mr. Stupak dismiss the hearts and voices of the nuns? Did you find his comment insulting?

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Rick C.
Willmar, MN     03/20/2010 10:24 AM

The beat goes on, all is not unified among the sisters. “What must be known is that Cardinal George stated what Sister Carol herself said in a March 11 letter from CHA to the House of Representatives. In it, she wrote that CHA "believes the Senate legislation should be amended through a 'corrections' bill to address the following issues." Sister Carol listed five points, the last of which reads, "The bill should ensure that the final, overall health reform package will provide no federal funding for abortion."” “Divisions exist among nuns, too. A smaller, more conservative organization, the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, which represents over 103 communities and 10,000 members, issued a statement siding with the bishops against the health care bill. "I feel badly that others who are responsible for this faith ... have not taken the leadership of the bishops as seriously as they should," council president Mother Mary Quentin Sheridan said in an interview.” “Mr. Stupak hit back at the nuns on Thursday, saying they did not have much influence. “With all due respect to the nuns, when I deal or am working on right-to-life issues, we don’t call the nuns,” he said on the MSNBC program “Hardball.””

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Luke J.
03/19/2010 6:22 AM

Thank God for the nuns. Terrance you are exactly right. They have the courage, the compassion, the integrity to tell the truth. They have nothing to gain. They are thinking of our children, our elderly, our handicapped, our poor, our downtrodden, our destitute, our homeless. God bless the nuns. This bill does nothing to change abortion coverage. Just another ploy.

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Rick C.
Willmar, MN     03/18/2010 6:32 PM

BTW since we have not seen the final bill I would error on the side that the language is not strong enough to prevent the federal funding of abortion. I'm with the Bishops.

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Terrance P.
West Chester, PA     03/18/2010 4:50 PM

The nuns have the courage and the integrity to tell the truth- and they have little to lose. The men have all the power in the Catholic Church and the most to lose if they buck the hierarchy. They are more than willing to perpetuate a lie, if that is what the higher ups tell them to do. They were certainly willing and complicit in covering up decades of sexual abuse of Catholic children by consistently lying about it to preserve their jobs and the positions of their fellow priests. I'm not at all surprised they are lying about the abortion coverage issue in the health care bill. If they are anything at all, they are consistent. Sorry Rick- the nuns are telling the truth.

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Karen T.
Willmar, MN     03/18/2010 4:04 PM

Rick C., I respectfully beg to differ!

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Rick C.
Willmar, MN     03/18/2010 3:08 PM

No , the nuns are wrong and I think a Bishop trumps a nun.

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