A reminder: the religious sister who’s had the most run-ins with American bishops

That’s right! And she was able to build a worldwide Catholic communications network (with the help of many members of the laity) despite that. 

With thanks to Ed Mechmann for sending me this blog posting by author and columnist Amy Welborn.

… so I was thinking about all the virtual ink that’s been spilled, tears that have been shed and skin that’s been worn off hands because of all that wringing over the LCWR/Sr. Farley business, and I figures at some point soon, the columnists and bloggers are going to run out of material, and they just might need another example of a Religious Sister, Kept Down By The Men.

Mother Angelica

And Amy Welborn’s message to the mainstream media:

Here you go: the American religious sister who’s had more conflicts with more bishops than any other over the past few decades. Who’s gone head-to-head with a bishop or two, whose work has been supported by lay people, but who’s had bishops has her primary opponents, both overtly and covertly, who, up until various shifts and changes of the past 5-7 years, has had probably 80% of the American bishops strongly in opposition to her ministry.

Nun v. Male Bishops! For your next column, blog post, Colbert bit or #hashtag campaign!