Sunday, December 23, 2007

Two currents of work in women's religious communities...

Well, while we're gratified to see some young women's communities organizing and growing and bringing new Graces into Holy Mother Church, we're not surprised how little some of the older communities, flush with the spirit of Vatican II, have left to contribute:
Nuns leave their brains to science
Seriously, perhaps the neurologists studying those brains can find the "spirit of Vatican II" switch and come up with a way to turn it off before their whole orders disappear.

1 comment:

N. Trandem said...

Come now, I'm sure this will result in many important discoveries - like the effects of long-term psychedelic drug use on the brain. Or the how brain tissue atrophies when higher reason is assiduously avoided over many decades...