Infamous Catholic Nun Cites Virgin Mary as Support for Pro-Abortion Views

[Michie]

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On December 8, Sr. Quinn sent a thank-you note to those who lobbied their senators to vote against the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment.





HINSDALE, IL (LifeSiteNews.com) -

Sr. Donna Quinn of the Sinsinawa Dominican community, already notorious for volunteering as a clinic escort at a local abortion facility, has now come in out praise of the failure of the Nelson/Hatch/Casey amendment in the Senate, which would have restricted federal abortion funding. In addition, Quinn has described the Virgin Mary as "one of the first women in the New Testament to express Choice."

On December 8, Sr. Quinn sent a thank-you note to those who lobbied their senators to vote against the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment, according to the Chicago Tribune.

"The Amendment lost today but now the work will be to take this Bill and come out with the same good news when the Senate and House work together," Quinn stated.

She furthermore noted the date of the amendment's defeat, the Catholic feast of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, as propitious. "I was reminded of being with men and women from the Unitarian faith tradition last year," Quinn said, "as they celebrated Mary who by her assent, they believed, was one of the first women in the New Testament to express choice."

Responding to Quinn's statement, Joseph Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that "to see any kind of connection between the Blessed Mother and abortion is not only heresy, but is a major insult to the attitude the Church has towards the Blessed Mother as the mother of our Savior."

"The Blessed Mother is the pinnacle of life. She brought us the life-saver, the soul-saver."

Sr. Quinn is well known as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues. She co-founded the feminist organization Chicago Catholic Women and is a coordinator in the radical National Coalition of American Nuns, which opposes the Catholic Church's position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood.

More recently, she has been reprimanded by her Dominican community for acting as an abortion escort. She nevertheless remained defiant following the reprimand, claiming her actions kept women from "being physically assaulted" by pro-lifers, a claim pro-life counselors at the abortion facility have called "unbelievable" and "without basis."

Defending her opposition of Catholic doctrine, Quinn's letter quoted an article by writer Jeannine Gramick in the magazine "Conscience," published by the pro-abortion organization "Catholics for Choice."

"Faithful and respectful dissent is vital to the life of the church," she wrote. "It enables the church community to think, to deliberate, to debate and to grow in relationship to one another and in relationship to God. We cannot afford to let our dissenters be silenced. They are a gift to our church."

The article that Sr. Quinn quotes approvingly mentions Sr. Quinn's own advocacy of abortion and radical feminism. Jeannine Gramick has herself refused to obey an order from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith silencing her for her attitude towards homosexuality; an award-winning documentary praised by several critics and shown at several film festivals casts her as a courageous rebel against the Church.

Nevertheless, to view such "dissent" as valuable is fundamentally misguided, according to Schiedler.

"She's an example of a person who has replaced God with her own God," he said of Quinn. "The first commandment says thou shalt not have strange God's before me. He's not talking about gold calves; he's talking about people who become their own Gods, make up their own theology, and then follow it, probably with more determination than many people follow the true God."

Further more, it is the very fact that she claims to be Catholic that garners her publicity: "If she were out of the Church she would be totally unknown - she stays in the Church to get publicity."

An email to Sr. Quinn's prioress had not been returned at press time.

To respectfully contact:

Cardinal Francis George
Office of the Archbishop
Archdiocese of Chicago
PO Box 1979
Chicago, IL. 60690-1979
Phone: 312-534-8230
E-Mail: archbishop@archchicago.org

Sr. Patricia Mulcahey, OP
Prioress - Sinsinawa Dominicans
E-mail: Spatmul@aol.co

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[Eucharisted]

Just goes to show that theology can be twisted to trick souls.

 

[MoNiCa4316]

In addition, Quinn has described the Virgin Mary as "one of the first women in the New Testament to express Choice."

that makes it sound like Mary could have chosen the other option.. that's horrifying :o for Mary there was only one thing she wanted to do: God's will. That's how we should imitate her.

 

[Rhamiel]

should not her superiors repremend her? how is she allowed to do all of this?

 

[ebia]

Kind of wierd argument - by choosing 'for' one is automatically affirming the goodness of choosing 'against'? (Flawed in several other ways as well, but that seems the worst flaw among many.)

 

[Anygma]

Mary's "choice" should we remind her, was made BEFORE the Holy Spirit came upon her... before the act to conceive and Mary said yes against all odd. i mean, that young girl was not yet married, she was risking stoning, so basically, risking her life, literally to accept our Savior.

so the "choice" sister Quinn should be advocating is the choice to abstain from sex.

may God have mercy on this poor soul

 

[Fantine]

I wonder how her personal letter to a few individual Senators wound up in the Chicago Tribune.

I wonder how much good her stalkers could accomplish if they dedicated themselves to more positive activities than stalking a nun.

Her letter wasn't intended for publication. She didn't intend to scandalize you, or bring more criticism upon her order.

If she had written a "letter to the editor" that would be a different story, but instead, the editor was bird-dogging her.

 

[Tigg]

Mary's "choice" should we remind her, was made BEFORE the Holy Spirit came upon her... before the act to conceive and Mary said yes against all odd. i mean, that young girl was not yet married, she was risking stoning, so basically, risking her life, literally to accept our Savior.

so the "choice" sister Quinn should be advocating is the choice to abstain from sex.

may God have mercy on this poor soul

Well said!

There is no human that ever lived that did not have the freedom to choose. That includes Mary. She chose well. Seems that the freedom of choice has been given by God. Thousands or millions (don't know how many people lived before Mary - ) had the freedom to choose and did so. Mary had choice as well. I should follow her example.

I do not consider Miss Quin to be a nun. She has opted out of honoring life and the dictates of the Church. They (whoever is the higher up) should remove the status of Sister and let her go her own way. IMO

 

[Anygma]

Well said!

There is no human that ever lived that did not have the freedom to choose. That includes Mary. She chose well. Seems that the freedom of choice has been given by God. Thousands or millions (don't know how many people lived before Mary - ) had the freedom to choose and did so. Mary had choice as well. I should follow her example.

I do not consider Miss Quin to be a nun. She has opted out of honoring life and the dictates of the Church. They (whoever is the higher up) should remove the status of Sister and let her go her own way. IMO

i share in that opinion too ! can they remove a vow just like that tho? probably excommunication for such dissent tho.

 

[dongt44]

It is interesting that the suggestion that Mary had a chocice should provoke such strong responses. Surely Mary had a chocice and exercised it to bear the Son of God. If we are calvinist we would perhaps say that she was predestined, and elected by God to bear that child and that her will had no say in the matter. I differ.Mary did have a choice. She obeyed God and accomplished His will. Interestingly, if she had chosen to abort that child, would mankind have been damned?

 

[AngelicRose]

I really hope Catholic realize that this Catholic "nun" is not following the teaching of the Church.

I am not exercising a CHOICE when there is ONLY ONE ANSWER: Yes, to choosing life, every time, all the time.

I wonder if this nun will have to answer for all the lives that were lost because of her escorting this women to abortion clinics on the day she enters heaven.

May the Lord and our Blessed Lady watch over this Sister of ours and I pray that she would decide to make the choice to choose life one day very soon.

 

[Kotton]

I wonder how her personal letter to a few individual Senators wound up in the Chicago Tribune.

There are a lot of people working in senator's offices.

I wonder how much good her stalkers could accomplish if they dedicated themselves to more positive activities than stalking a nun.

Stalkers? Never heard of any, but observers of her 'escorting' women would be apparent to anyone present.

Her letter wasn't intended for publication. She didn't intend to scandalize you, or bring more criticism upon her order.

She only scandalizes herself.

If she had written a "letter to the editor" that would be a different story, but instead, the editor was bird-dogging her.

What editor? What proof?

Kotton

 

[Miss Shelby]

barf-o-rama