New tour for ‘nuns on the bus’

May 28, 2013

Network – the lobbying group whose president addressed the Democratic National Convention in 2012 after stating she was hesitant to call herself pro-life – is launching its second “nuns on the bus” tour.

Last summer, 14 religious sisters boarded a bus in Iowa and traveled to Washington to protest Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan. This year, the sisters will advocate for immigration reform.

The nuns will board a bus in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 28 and will conclude their tour in San Francisco on June 18.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith criticized Network in its 2012 Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious:

Bishop Blair presented further documentation on the content of the LCWR’s Mentoring Leadership Manual and also on the organizations associated with the LCWR, namely Network and The Resource Center for Religious Institutes. The documentation reveals that, while there has been a great deal of work on the part of LCWR promoting issues of social justice in harmony with the Church’s social doctrine, it is silent on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States. Further, issues of crucial importance to the life of Church and society, such as the Church’s Biblical view of family life and human sexuality, are not part of the LCWR agenda in a way that promotes Church teaching.

 

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Further information:

• Nuns on the Bus
• At Democratic convention, ‘Nuns on the Bus’ sister rips Ryan budget, says USCCB backs her views (CWN, 9/6/12)
• Network begins ‘nuns on the bus’ tour to protest Ryan budget plan (CWN, 6/19/12)
• Nun who leads Network disparages bishops, hesitant to call herself pro-life (CWN, 6/13/12)
• Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (USCCB)