Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits or at least identifiable religious garb, ordering their schedules around daily prayers and working primarily in Roman Catholic institutions, like schools and hospitals. “They think of us as an ecclesiastical work force,”
said Sister Sandra M. Schneiders,
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The majority of the remaining 60,000 American nuns are disappointed old women who are best left to die out. It would be more merciful to ignore them than to engage them in discussion. The Church and the world that brought their present plight and attitudes into being has changed from what it was in the naive, explosive 1960s, leaving them behind. Few have listened with benefit to their message, none among the young want to follow them. Let them slowly vanish and leave them to God.
As for Miss Schneiders, she thinks she's fine in herself, if little better than a cipher in reality. She has tenure, a platform, a secure income and a good pension to look forward to (assuming she's not drawing it already) but this won't last for ever as the horizon none of us can escape approaches nearer day by day. She'll soon be forgotten, poor old girl. Incidentally, doesn't she describe herself as a post-Christian with a Catholic ethos, or something similarly self-indulgent? In reality she is an angry old woman with only attacks on the Church to assuage her fury. She might as well preach to the birds. She practices the Gospel of 'Look at me!'.
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