Nun volunteers as abortion clinic escort

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Nun volunteers as abortion clinic escort; Illinois
Topic Started: Sunday, 25. October 2009, 10:07 (374 Views)
Clare	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 10:07 Post #1
Wacko Schismatic Traditionalist Woman Posts: 3,093 Group: Members Member #70 Joined: March 27, 2007	LifeSiteNews Quote: Nun Volunteering as Abortion Clinic Escort in Illinois Sr. Quinn's prioress said in an email response to LSN that the nun sees her volunteer activity as "accompanying women who are verbally abused by protestors." By Kathleen Gilbert HINSDALE, Illinois, October 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Illinois recently - but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort. Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article. "I've called her sister several times, and she never responded," local pro-lifer John Bray told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). "But it's her." Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for "six years, at least." Keane described one incident in which Quinn began shouting at the pro-lifers as they spoke to a woman about to enter the abortion facility. "[Quinn] was so angry, and burst out very loudly so everyone could hear: 'Look at these men, telling these women what to do with their bodies!'" said Keane. "She was so angry, that it really took all of us aback." Keane says that the group was peaceful, and that the men present were not among those engaging the woman. "For those of us who are Catholic, to have a member of a religious order so blatantly - it is so disheartening. It really is," said Keane. "She's participating actively in abortion. That is what is so disturbing for us." Sr. Donna Quinn, OP, is renowned in the Chicago area as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues. In 1974 she co-founded the organization Chicago Catholic Women, which lobbied the USCCB on a feminist platform before it dissolved in 2000. She is now a coordinator of the radically liberal National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN), which stands in opposition against the Catholic Church's position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood. While LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) was unable to reach Sr. Quinn for comment, NCAN's Sr. Beth Rindler confirmed to LSN that Quinn is still a member of their group, which favors unrestricted legalized abortion and disagrees with the teaching that abortion is intrinsically evil. "We respect women, and believe that they make moral decision, and so we respect their decisions," Rindler explained. In a 2002 address to the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School, Sr. Quinn described how she came to view the teachings of her Church as "immoral": "I used to say: 'This is my Church, and I will work to change it, because I love it,'" she said. "Then later I said, 'This church is immoral, and if I am to identify with it I'd better work to change it.' More recently, I am saying, 'All organized religions are immoral in their gender discriminations.'" Quinn called gender discrimination "the root cause of evil in the Church, and thus in the world," and said she remained in the Dominican community simply for "the sisterhood." Sr. Patricia Mulcahey, OP, Quinn's Prioress at the Sinsinawa Dominican community, said in an email response to LSN that the nun sees her volunteer activity as "accompanying women who are verbally abused by protestors. Her stance is that if the protestors were not abusive, she would not be there." Though Sr. Mulcahey claimed that her sisters "support the teachings of the Catholic Church," she declined to comment on Quinn's public protest of Catholic Church teaching. Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League says Quinn came in contact with his own office in 1982, when she and a group of other pro-aborts picketed his building on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. "She figures it's part of her religion to take these women in and protect them, and get them abortions," said Scheidler of Quinn's recent activity. "Something dreadful has happened to make a Catholic nun become an escort at an abortion clinic - that's the lowest form you can reach, where you escort a woman with a living child in her into a place to have the child killed, and to ruin that woman's soul." "If I didn't even believe in the humanity of the child - which of course would be crazy - even if I didn't, I would fight abortion for the sake of the women," Scheidler added. "They miss that baby, and they can't get it back. They never can."
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Mrs.Pogle	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 10:27 Post #2
Home-maker Posts: 831 Group: Members Member #219 Joined: February 2, 2009	Quote: Sr. Donna Quinn, OP, is renowned in the Chicago area as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues. In 1974 she co-founded the organization Chicago Catholic Women, which lobbied the USCCB on a feminist platform before it dissolved in 2000. She is now a coordinator of the radically liberal National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN), which stands in opposition against the Catholic Church's position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood. Then she should be excommunicated.
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Patrick	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 10:51 Post #3
Administrator Posts: 3,633 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 25, 2006	Quote: Sr. Quinn's prioress said in an email response to LSN that the nun sees her volunteer activity as "accompanying women who are verbally abused by protestors." What an absolute joke - and a disgrace!



SeanJ	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 11:37 Post #4
Moderator Posts: 877 Group: Moderator Member #208 Joined: September 26, 2008	Why on earth has the local bishop not intervened? SeanJ



Patrick	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 11:38 Post #5
Administrator Posts: 3,633 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 25, 2006	SeanJ Sunday, 25. October 2009, 11:37 Why on earth has the local bishop not intervened? SeanJ Depends on who the local bishop is, I guess....



OsullivanB	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 11:44 Post #6
Posts: 2,203 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	Do we know that the bishop has done nothing?



Joe Valente	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 20:20 Post #7
Posts: 406 Group: Members Member #227 Joined: April 3, 2009	"Why on earth has the local bishop not intervened?" In the first instance it is not the Bishop,s responsibility. This woman is a member of a religious order, one of the largest of women's orders, it is for the Mother General of the Dominicans to take action. The Bishop can request that she take action, if she doe's not then the Bishop can step in.
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pete	Sunday, 25. October 2009, 23:09 Post #8
Posts: 696 Group: Members Member #76 Joined: April 2, 2007	As dissatisfied Anglican clergy and their members have now been welcomed into the Catholic Church, I wonder if the Church of England would welcome this women in exchange. I refuse to call her a nun, simply because she doesn’t behave like one.



Ned	Monday, 26. October 2009, 00:24 Post #9
Posts: 674 Group: Members Member #61 Joined: March 1, 2007	Joe Valente Sunday, 25. October 2009, 20:20 In the first instance it is not the Bishop,s responsibility. All the Religious Orders are subject to the Bishop of Rome. US nuns are under Vatican scrutiny at the moment, and some of them are screaming blue-murder about it.



artemis836	Monday, 26. October 2009, 01:51 Post #10
Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #254 Joined: October 19, 2009	Clare Sunday, 25. October 2009, 10:07 Sr. Donna Quinn, OP, is renowned in the Chicago area as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues. In 1974 she co-founded the organization Chicago Catholic Women, which lobbied the USCCB on a feminist platform before it dissolved in 2000. She is now a coordinator of the radically liberal National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN), which stands in opposition against the Catholic Church's position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood. It does not surprise me at all that this is all coming from Chicago. I live there and I must say, it is not only powerfully liberal it is powerfully anti-traditionalist and anti-Catholic. I am an outspoken Catholic working for a non-profit government agency funded by new Obama policies and I have been getting alot of grief from my coworkers. Nothing we are doing runs counter to the teachings of the Catholic faith (or else I wouldn't be there) but the mood in the place really gets me down alot. Edited by artemis836, Monday, 26. October 2009, 01:53.
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Mairtin	Monday, 26. October 2009, 09:18 Post #11
Posts: 1,156 Group: Members Member #206 Joined: August 16, 2008	SeanJ Sunday, 25. October 2009, 11:37 Why on earth has the local bishop not intervened? SeanJ He is possibly pondering which is the lesser of evils, to simply ignore her or to give her the further publicity she obviously craves.
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Derekap	Monday, 26. October 2009, 21:55 Post #12
Posts: 3,415 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	You have a good point Mairtin! Sometimes critical publicity helps such views.
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artemis836	Tuesday, 27. October 2009, 00:28 Post #13
Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #254 Joined: October 19, 2009	Mairtin Monday, 26. October 2009, 09:18 SeanJ Sunday, 25. October 2009, 11:37 Why on earth has the local bishop not intervened? SeanJ He is possibly pondering which is the lesser of evils, to simply ignore her or to give her the further publicity she obviously craves. While I see what you are saying, Mairtin, I must disagree. Francis Cardinal George, our archbishop, has spoken out before. He came down quite hard on the whole "Obama speaking at Notre Dame" issue and called it a disgrace. I'm personally puzzeled why he hasn't done anything. He has made public statements concerning abortion before, and was more then ready to speak on an issue of a neighboring parish but seems like he needs to clean house a bit himself. I think he might be worried about how it would look for him to be coming down too hard on a local nun who is working in favor of "women's rights" (that term makes me ill I might add). Bottom line, he needs to say something.
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Rose of York	Tuesday, 27. October 2009, 00:36 Post #14
Administrator Posts: 14,560 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	artemis836 Tuesday, 27. October 2009, 00:28 I think he might be worried about how it would look for him to be coming down too hard on a local nun who is working in favor of "women's rights" (that term makes me ill I might add). Bottom line, he needs to say something. An Archbishop should not worry about how it looks for him to speak out on moral issues. I understand a house of a religious order, whilst coming under the authority of the Order, may not operate within the geographical boundaries of a diocese without the permission of the local bishop.
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Joe Valente	Tuesday, 27. October 2009, 06:36 Post #15
Posts: 406 Group: Members Member #227 Joined: April 3, 2009	In defence of the Archbishop, as Ned has already pointed out, the Vatican is already carrying out a rigorous investigation into the behaviour, actions and lifestyle of nuns in America. Perhaps in Canon Law, as in the temporal law, this matter is considered sub judice and the Archbishop has been instructed to remain silent until Vatican investigations are completed and official judgement made. Whatever the reasons I believe that it will not be too long until this woman will be unable to claim any status within the Catholic Church.
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