Here at Wonkette, you know we love us some nuns because they are basically big commies like our damn selves. We also like nuns because they seem to get certain varieties of Congresscritters really really riled up, what with their fancy ideas about how Jesus loved poor people and thought they mebbe shouldn't just die in ditches. The latest Congresscritter to yell at nuns is
I credit my Dad, a former seminarian, with planting the philosophy in my head, but I owe much of the nurturing of my budding progressivism to the nuns who taught me during 9.5 years of Catholic school. As a young schoolboy in Detroit in the late 1950s and early 1960s I learned about the heroism of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the Freedom Riders and the evilness of the KKK and Bull Connor from the IHM Sisters in Catholic school. In music class* we sang at least as many civil rights songs as we did hymns. It was where I learned "We Shall Overcome" and "Blowing In The Wind" and class included extensive discussions about the meanings behind those songs. Later, in high school, we talked at length about issues associated with the ongoing Vietnam War -- in Religion class.
Imagine how different the Catholic Church would be today if it allowed women to be priests.
*Catholic school education always included Music because singing was of major importance during Mass.
Indeed.
I only had 9.5 years (the rest in public school) -- but true that.
I credit my Dad, a former seminarian, with planting the philosophy in my head, but I owe much of the nurturing of my budding progressivism to the nuns who taught me during 9.5 years of Catholic school. As a young schoolboy in Detroit in the late 1950s and early 1960s I learned about the heroism of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the Freedom Riders and the evilness of the KKK and Bull Connor from the IHM Sisters in Catholic school. In music class* we sang at least as many civil rights songs as we did hymns. It was where I learned "We Shall Overcome" and "Blowing In The Wind" and class included extensive discussions about the meanings behind those songs. Later, in high school, we talked at length about issues associated with the ongoing Vietnam War -- in Religion class.
Imagine how different the Catholic Church would be today if it allowed women to be priests.
*Catholic school education always included Music because singing was of major importance during Mass.
When the stupid thought that dribbled out of your brain isn't bad enough: Reid Ribble.
Betsy Rothstein, is that you?
Hey, you could write for FishbowlDC!
and those cemeteries also too
Time to break out the rulers