Look at this recent "News Brief" that appeared at Catholic News Service on 11/20/03. Why is it that this organization, which I understand is under the direction of the USCCB, continues to promote dissenters like Joan Chittister in their publications?
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Benedictine sister aims to bring more women to table of peace
CLINTON, Iowa (CNS) -- As the Women's Partnership for Peace in the Middle East was meeting in Oslo, Norway, last summer, a suicide bombing took place in Israel. One of the delegates to the peace conference, who was unable to attend, lost a grandchild in the tragedy. The grandmother telephoned the conference's participants and urged, "Keep the dialogue going. Maybe you can save somebody else's granddaughter." Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, also a delegate to the Oslo conference, shared that story with an audience of about 300 people Nov. 2 at The Franciscan University in Clinton. The Benedictine lecturer, author and peace promoter from Erie, Pa., was in town to receive the 2003 Clare Award from the Clinton-based Sisters of St. Francis. Recipients of the Clare Award -- which has been presented only four times since its establishment a decade ago -- are women who exemplify "the characteristics of St. Clare and the values of the Clinton Franciscans: to live active nonviolence, pursuing peace with justice in right relationship with all creation."-------------------------------
And yet, right above this story was this 'News Brief':
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Cardinal George says modern culture leaves people without firm values
ROME (CNS) -- Modern culture's exaltation of individualism and its pandering to changing whims are leaving people without firm references to the values and ideas that can draw them together and give them a common identity, said Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago. "Modern culture fosters the dissolution of human community, for it lacks any single publicly acknowledged system for integrating, legitimizing and evaluating human experience," the cardinal told a conference in Rome. The cardinal spoke at Rome's Lateran University Nov. 20 during a conference marking the 10th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's encyclical, "Veritatis Splendor," on moral theology.-----------------------------
Ok, first Cdl. George addresses the exaltation of individualism (pride, disobedience?), then CNS touts Sr. Joan.....
What gives? No wonder Catholics, and others, are so confused!!
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