The Vatican today demanded that ABC cancel The Flying Nun sitcom, insisting it was disrepectful, Satanic and "liable to give those nuns ideas." When informed the show had been off the air for more than 40 years, church officials insisted they were not out of touch.
Yes, I'm joking, but the Bishops weren't joking at all when they issued a report this week accusing leading American nuns of harboring "radical feminist ideas." An archbishop and two bishops were sent to bring the wayward women to heel.
Here's a Jezebel post on the subject just because I like to think of a bishop hissing the word "jezebel!" http://tinyurl.com/bm4yvab
Here's Amy Davidson's not dissimilar take in the New Yorker: http://tinyurl.com/bumpm39
And on WaPo's "She the People" blog, Melinda Henneberger notes that at the same moment the Vatican is chastising the nuns, the church is reconciling with the Society of St. Pius X with its Holocaust-denying bishop: http://tinyurl.com/7wxuls4
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