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| A Girl Scout cadet with Troop 4458 adjusts her sash during an awards ceremony at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, 04/03/12. (photo: Lisa Johnston/St. Louis Review) |
05 June 12
Bishops search for condoms in cookie boxes.
he United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is having a Saturday Night Live moment. Emboldened by the Vatican's hostile takeover of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the gentlemen have shown their prowess by choosing to investigate
the Girl Scouts of the USA. Which would be comical - first the nuns,
now the Girl Scouts - if the goal were not so pernicious and the outcome
so damaging, especially to the bishops.
The tactics against the girls and the women are taken
from one playbook, the goal of intimidation is the same, and the
pushback in both cases is distracting from more pressing problems at
hand. Still, you wonder who does their public relations, as the bishops
are now about as popular as a recession.
The apparent goal of this exercise of "investigating"
gender female persons is to set up and enforce a male-defined model of
girlhood/womanhood. A Vatican-, or in this case, USCCB-launched
investigation is what Sister Sandra Schneiders, IHM, calls the
equivalent of a grand jury investigation.
There is the presumption that
something is wrong, not something right, that there is guilt to be
uncovered, not virtue to be unleashed. What is wrong seems to be women
and girls thinking for themselves and acting for the common good. READ MORE
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