Statement in Response to the 2024 Benedictine College Commencement Address: "The sisters of Mount St …

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May 19

Orthocat

May 19

"Deaconesses in the spirit", anyone?

One of the nuns' concerns was Butker's assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. This statement goes against the true Catholic teaching that a calling to the priesthood or religious life is the highest calling: Canon X Session 24 of the Council of Trent—If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is …More

One of the nuns' concerns was Butker's assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. This statement goes against the true Catholic teaching that a calling to the priesthood or religious life is the highest calling: Canon X Session 24 of the Council of Trent—If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity, or in celibacy, than to be united in matrimony: let him be anathema.

So in fact, one of the the nuns' concerns is based entirely in Catholic dogma which Butker contradicted.

Bruceph Mildur

May 19

spinny, methinks thy wires doth cross... women cannot be priests, therefore their highest calling is to motherhood (homemaking).

mccallansteve

May 18

I see these old women never grew out of ,'Dress up" from their younger days.

spinmeister

May 19

Another of their concerns is that Butker's speech is divisive, and based on the comments here, they weren't wrong about that either.
Oh yes, it's unarguable that they are all sexually frustrated, liberal, secular humanist, traitorous, hags, who attend the wrong mass and are fit for nothing but servitude in the kitchen, and who had the temerity to even consider the thought that THEY could contradict …More

Another of their concerns is that Butker's speech is divisive, and based on the comments here, they weren't wrong about that either.
Oh yes, it's unarguable that they are all sexually frustrated, liberal, secular humanist, traitorous, hags, who attend the wrong mass and are fit for nothing but servitude in the kitchen, and who had the temerity to even consider the thought that THEY could contradict this virile, athletic, handsome, 30 year old manly man-god who was representing the college that THEY FOUNDED, but it would seem that it is possible, old and ugly crones though they be, that they might have had a few points that didn't stem from pure witch-like malice against our infallible Catholic hero.