It’s no secret that the female religious in the United States are corrupt and too often unabashed allies of evil. But it still makes one cringe to find this story about a nun who would dare to actively and unabashedly aid in the murder of children. From the article:
Sr. Donna Quinn, OP, is renowned in the Chicago area as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues.
In 1974 she co-founded the organization Chicago Catholic Women, which lobbied the USCCB on a feminist platform before it dissolved in 2000. She is now a coordinator of the radically liberal National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN), which stands in opposition against the Catholic Church’s position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood.
Now granted, Quinn is about the average age of these liberal religious (or, ex-religious? see below) types (ancient), so she’ll be going on to her fiery reward soon enough. But the Church leaders in the US must start doing something about this kind of blatant heresy. The fact that Quinn is actively participating in the murder of innocents makes it of even greater urgency.
However, it seems to me that it’s a misnomer to refer to Quinn as a nun or religious, if I understand Cannon Law correctly. In fact, it seems to me that she’s been excommunicated.
According to Canon Law, Chapter VI Article 3, there are three cases in which a religious must be ipso facto dismissed from an order. The first is if one “has defected notoriously from the Catholic faith.” Sr. Quinn meets that charge on about 50 different counts, by her own words (quoted in the article above):
In a 2002 address to the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School, Sr. Quinn described how she came to view the teachings of her Church as “immoral”: “I used to say: ‘This is my Church, and I will work to change it, because I love it,’” she said. “Then later I said, ‘This church is immoral, and if I am to identify with it I’d better work to change it.’ More recently, I am saying, ‘All organized religions are immoral in their gender discriminations [sic].’”
Further, as defined by Canon law, there are eight instances in which a person may incur an excommunication latae sententiae. One of them is the procurement of a completed abortion. Can. 1329 proclaims, further, that one incurs an excommunication latae sententiae if by their aid the act of the person would not have committed the infraction. Therefore, has not Quinn expelled herself from the religious order and the privilege of Holy Communion? It seems to me that an ecclesiastical authority should make the declaration of such (she has already expelled herself; the authority should simply point this out).
Regardless of whether my lay interpretation of Canon law is correct, it’s disheartening to find such a despicable murderer and God-hating reprobate among the religious community. We should pray for the removal of all influence from Donna Quinn, and for her soul.
