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- Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:59:36 EST
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- From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
- Subject: Re: Questions
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Blue eyes cryin' in the rain" at Dec 29,
- 92 10:34 am
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- > For the Gleanings-impaired...
- >
- > > What are the Maryknolls?
- >
- > A religious order of some sort. Catholic, I suppose.
-
- [How come non-Catholics are answering this??:-)]
-
- Corrections of fact requested....
-
- The Maryknolls are an order of uncloistered nuns who have become known
- for social activism to the point where, from what I've heard, many
- conservative Catholics find them abhorrently pro-Communist. They are
- associated, I think, with the "Liberation Theology" of South and
- Central American priests which, yes, borrowed what it needed from
- Marxism (horrors!) in the name of serving bodies and souls on earth
- instead of telling those bodies and souls to wait for their reward
- until they die at the hands of United Fruit. It was three Maryknoll
- sisters and a lay worker who were raped and murdered in El Salvador in
- 1980.
-
- Ken
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