Cardinal Franc Rode, the Pope's man in charge of investigating U.S. Catholic nuns, gave a speech in Rome last month suggesting that Vatican Council II opened up a period of experimentation that caused young women to avoid becoming religious sisters. I guess that means: it's not our fault, it's the fault of those misguided sisters in the United States who were led astray by Vatican II.
But he was not finished; he then continued: "Faced with an aging membership and fewer vocations, many religious orders have turned to 'foreign vocations' in places like Africa, India and the Philippines." One might ask, "What is wrong with that?"The cardinal then said the orders need to remember that quality of vocations is more important than quantity.
Yes, you read it correctly; Cardinal Rode is suggesting that the "quality" of sisters and nuns in Africa, India, and the Philippines is substandard.
Thus, the American nuns, led astray by Vatican II, are too secular and those "foreign" nuns are somehow inferior.
What is his problem? With that attitude, is he capable of conducting any kind of "investigation" involving religious women? Where does the Pope find these guys?
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