Support the nuns...

... and not the criminals.

It has been clear for a while that a showdown was coming. The hard right turn of the Conference of Bishops, who as a result of the attacks against their memberships for covering up child rape have embraced the victimized persecuted posture of modern conservatism, while the institutional and network links between the right and the American church were deepened; the fact that shortly after the hard right turn of the Vatican an Inquisitor was sent to the U.S. to assess the role of the nuns; the fact that the nuns have continued to prioritize justice and downplay oppression, just as the global church and the Bishops were doing the opposite. All of this foretold what was to come.

But the idea that a body who has been living the life of service commanded by the Christ and the Church is to be suppressed with the full participation of the malignant opponents of criminal investigations, those who shielded of rapists from law (as opposed to accompanying them through their punishments and defending their humanity against the desire for retribution, the appropriate and infinitely difficult role of the clergy), and who put their own desire to secure their influence in the conservative movement above their duty to serve the spiritual and material necessities of their congregation, inspires a bitterness within me that cannot be holy. The nuns have been the counterweight to this malignancy; suppress them and we are left with a luciferic coven of the self-interested and well-established as the sole institutional voice of Catholicism.

Oh wait, there's always the Catholic League, faithfully dedicated to keeping lapsed Catholics lapsed and to advancing the ignominy of the Church.