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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy can't we get Sister Simone Campbell for the Benediction??
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Sister Simone Campbell
It seems too obvious, so there must be a reason.
She could bring the Nuns on the Bus with her to the podium.
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hedgehog
(36,286 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)MgtPA
(1,022 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)MgtPA
(1,022 posts)I love Sr. Simone.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Addie Whisenant of the Presidential Inaugural Committee said in a statement:
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OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)I just tweeted there to have Sister Simone do the prayer. That is an excellent idea.
Cha
(297,240 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)She would be awesome.
moondust
(19,981 posts)Good idea!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I'll be glad when people no longer need all this nunsense.
DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)not about who will be giving it.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)they said Nun
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)I am not religious but she after seeing the work she and her sisters are doing, I don't think there is a better choice
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Nuns on a Bus! They really did a wonderful thing, exposing little Lyin Ryan last year during the campaign. Surely the Inauguration Committee has a list to choose from, and she must be on it. Wonder when they will announce it? Maybe by Friday?
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)big campaign checks
randome
(34,845 posts)But since Campbell is not in 'good graces' with the Catholic Hierarchy, I doubt they would approve. And subsequently, a lot of Catholics would see it as a fork in the eye of the Pope.
Which also I wouldn't mind but that's beside the point.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Why should there be a benediction at a ceremony for government that is supposed to have separation of church and state?
Not knocking Sister Simone here, but the whole thing is wrong from the get-go.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)this atheist is totally down with Sister Simone!
Chan790
(20,176 posts)It may pass muster with the WH but benediction (the giving of a blessing) would be viewed by the church as conducting a religious service.
Nuns may not conduct religious services, only members of the clergy can. Full stop. End of story. Setting aside the objections of DUers to the inherent sexism of the church, the doctrinal tenets of the faith are important to practicing Catholics and certainly more-so to anybody who has demonstrated dedication to them by taking religious vows such as Sister Simone has.
What you're suggesting is something that not only would infuriate the Vatican and the USCCB, it's something that many Catholics including presumably Sister Simone would consider a blasphemy. I'd love to have her involved and support any effort to draw attention to her work, but that involvement must respect her religious values.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Nobody is asking her to administer a sacrament (marriage, communion, absolution, etc.). She's also not being asked to conduct a Mass. She's actually not being asked to bless any one or any thing. She's being asked to offer a prayer. In my view, it's no different than if I asked the Nuns on the Bus over to my house for supper, and asked Sr. Simone to say Grace. It's not terribly different than if there were a group of Catholics she were leading in saying the Rosary.
As for the Vatican and the USCCB: we have two different topics there. The Vatican is a nation state with severe credit problems at the moment. I suspect they'd welcome any chance to engage The Church with President Obama in a positive way. They didn't object, for example, when he spoke at Notre Dame. The USCCB is another topic. That said, they didn't object when she spoke at the DNC (granted, she didn't pray), and they let Dolan give the benediction there (which I would not suggest we allow again for a moment).