Nuns kick ass.

[onehandle]

Some of them kicked my ass in Catholic school, but most were like the nuns on the bus.

[liberalmuse]

1. Figuratively AND literally!

Don't mess with nuns!

[Historic NY]

2. Don't mess with the penguins....

(Dominicans wore white & blk habits) and could throw a mean eraser, but with loved them & they us.

[Cleita]

7. We were always attuned to the rosary beads clicking when they

tried to sneak up on us. One nun even remarked on my extraordinary hearing. Even today in old age and with hearing loss, I still hear better than most young people.

[Drahthaardogs]

3. The Catholic Church would be a better place

if the good sisters had some more power. The priests have all but forgotten everything but abortion. They are all one issue oriented. Weird. It was not like this growing up.

[smirkymonkey]

4. I agree, the nuns embody the true spirit of Christianity, while the priests only degrade it.

All they care about is control and power. They are as corrupt as any CEO or Repulican politician.

[Cleita]

6. That's a broad brush.

I have know good priests, particularly those who worked in poor parishes with the underclasses. They were devoted to their work. Then there were the ones who were political and did everything they could to rise in the diocesan hierarchy. Those I didn't have much time for.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Not all of them, but many of them do with their attemp to control the activism of the nuns

and also with the child molestation scandals. The corruption in the church is mainly attributed to priests, although I agree that not all priests are the problem. There are many good ones, but most of the corruption is due to the dominance of the men in power in the church.

[onehandle]

9. They're human. Some help many. Some are asses.

Some have both attributes.

The definition of their jobs leans towards good.

But they're human.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Then they should just be human, rather than pretending to be godlike.

No human being can ever achieve that status and they should admit to themselves that they actually ARE human, rather than pass judgement on other mortals for their humanity and condemnig them instead.

[Cleita]

8. This is the main big problem with the Catholic Church. The women need to gain

equal power with the men. I doubt if the Vatican will ever allow it.

[Cleita]

5. LOL! Me too!

However, one of the things they made us do was community service. It was along their principles of doing social work. We had to take one Saturday morning a month and help other people. Some of my classmates visited poor families and gave them food baskets and clothing. I was usually assigned to the VA to visit the vets in the cancer ward. Many of them didn't have family close enough to visit them so it was my job. I played cards with them and just visited. The nuns told me they requested I visit them so that's what I usually did. What the nuns didn't know was that I was a very good card player and had a good repertoire of dirty jokes, which is why I think they liked me .

[upi402]

10. True

and True with this ass as well.
There are some really cool Catholics.

[lindysalsagal]

13. She made me feel alot better about the catholic church.