NE Kansas nuns work to help environment

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CONCORDIA, Kan. - A graduate student at the University of Kansas has been documenting the environmental work done by a religious order in northeast Kansas.

Rachel Myslivy is a research assistant at the University of Kansas' Center for Research on Learning and a graduate student in the religious studies department. She began interviewing the members of the Sisters of St. Joseph at the Nazareth Convent and Academy in Concordia for an oral history project.

During those interviews, she told the Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/oWARqw), she found the sisters are passionate environmentalists. Their conversations continued to circle back to environmental concerns - recycling, composting and eating low on the food chain.

Myslivy realized the sisters' environmental activism was something larger than the oral history project.

http://www.kansas.com/2011/08/14/1973926/ne-kan-sisters-work-to-help-environment.html

[AverageJoe90]

1. We need more clergy people like these sisters.

[northoftheborder]

2. A positive story feels good on a depressing day.

[skepticscott]

3. And the point here is what?

There are a lot of environmentalists out there, and some of them also happen to be religious. So? Does being a nun make one more likely to compost and recycle?

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4. Lol.

[skepticscott]

7. Nice that you can justify your point so well

But tell us, how many recycled tin cans does it take to equal one raped child? I'm sure Catholic theologians worked that out right after the angels on the head of a pin thingie....so please share with the class.

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8. Wow, what a one trick pony.

At least try. Mention the Crusades.

[skepticscott]

9. Typical Catholic apologist, who dismisses children raped

by the hundreds with just a shrug and a lame, snide remark.

Typical and pathetic. But keep stumping for the recycling campaign by nuns. It's a truly awesome thing.

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10. See, here's the thing.

You have a fundamental, visceral revulsion for anything theist, anything religious and, most acutely, for anything Catholic. If you had a single honest moment you would acknowledge those feelings would exist even were there no child sex abuse.

No one is "dismissing" the damage that has been down by many in the various churches (not to mention a myraid of secular institutions, such as schools). What I do find typical and pathetic is your use of abused children to reach a conclusion you've formed long ago. It's a truly cynical thing.

[skepticscott]

11. Here's the thing

You know nothing whatsoever about what I think of "anything Catholic", or "anything religious", despite your arrogant presumption. I have a revulsion for a great many things that the Catholic church has done, and if you'd care to criticize my revulsion for the rape and sexual abuse of children, and the Catholic church's covering and abetting those crimes, feel free (I wouldn't be surprised). BTW, if you can cite ANY school system that has systematically covered the rape of hundreds of children by teachers and transferred rapist teachers to new schools without telling anyone of their past crimes, let's hear it. Otherwise, stuff your bogus false equivalency.

And the only thing pathetic here is your continued attempts to pretend that piddling little good deeds like recycling cans erase all of the corruption and evil perpetrated by the RCC throughout history. Your ongoing campaign here amounts to nothing else. I don't need to "use" those children...the Catholic church has already done that. If that merely confirms what intelligent people had already known about the church for centuries, that's your problem, not mine.

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12. QED

:puke:

[skepticscott]

13. Fact-free, thought-free

Is that the best response you have?

I'm thinking, probably yes. Have a nice day.

[darkstar3]

5. The point is simple.

Good actions outweigh bad.

It's bullshit, but it's the clear message nonetheless.

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[edhopper]

14. Too bad

the Sister have absolutely no power, prestige or authority in the Catholic Church.