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Sister Jeannine Just Won't Shut Up
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 For more than 22
years Sister Jeannine Gramick and her sidekick, Father Nugent, went all over
the world challenging the Church’s teaching that the homosexual condition
is intrinsically disordered. After two decades of undermining the Catholic
faith, Gramick and Nugent were finally given the mild censure of an order
forbidding them to present their heterodox views in public. No retraction, no
apology, and certainly nothing approaching the absurd threat of excommunication
which now hangs over the head of Father Nicholas Gruner—a priest of
unimpeachable orthodoxy.
The
double-standard rolls on. Heretics are coddled, while the public defenders of
Catholic tradition take it in the neck. As Cardinal Ratzinger admitted in his
1988 address to the bishops of Chile:
It is
intolerable to criticize decisions which have been taken since the Council; on
the other hand, if men make question of ancient rules, or even of the great
truths of the Faith—for instance, the corporal virginity of Mary, the
bodily resurrection of Jesus, the immortality of the soul, etc.—nobody
complains or only does so with the greatest moderation.
Well, it seems
that Sister Jeannine just won’t shut up. CWNews.com reports (May 2, 2001)
that she “has refused to obey” the Vatican’s order to stop
promoting her heterodox teaching on homosexuality, and that she continues to
travel “throughout the US to lecture about gay rights and her dispute with
the Church's teachings.” As the feisty little dissenter put it: “I
chose not to cooperate in my own oppression.”
So, the lovely
Sister Jeannine will be appearing at “PrideFest America,” a “gay
rights” conference in Philadelphia, where she will receive the annual Tom
Stoddard National Role Model Award, which is reserved to those who have
“fought for civil rights for homosexuals.”
And what will
happen to Sister Jeannine and her big mouth? An easy prediction: nothing. The
Vatican would never dare excommunicate a militant feminist nun who opposes
Catholic teaching and disobeys an order of the Vatican. Meanwhile, Father
Gruner, who has enrolled about half a million souls in the Brown Scapular and
distributed some one million Miraculous Medals, is threatened with the first
Vatican-imposed direct sentence of excommunication of any priest or nun in
living memory.
You see,
undermining Catholic doctrine is one thing. The Vatican observes that happening
every day, all over the world, and does next to nothing about it. But
questioning the Vatican bureaucracy’s advice to the Pope not to mention
Russia in the consecration of Russia—well, that is simply
intolerable.
What a joke.
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