"Act like a nun!"

This video, featured on Aleteia:

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impelled one commenter (with the perhaps-too-apropos net nick of "nopcspokenhere") to fuss:

You need to act like a nun instead of throwing yourself all around on a TV stage like some pop singer. Give me a break. What is your Mother Superior thinking.

You need to act like a nun instead of throwing yourself all around on a TV stage like some pop singer. Give me a break. What is your Mother Superior thinking.

"You need to act like a nun instead of throwing yourself all around on a TV stage like some pop singer. Give me a break. What is your Mother Superior thinking."

My reply:

She IS acting like a nun! Do you know any nuns? I'm blessed to live very near our local convent, and the sisters there are all astonishing, unique, gifted women. Some are funny, some are scary smart; some are gifted teachers, some nurses; one is a gifted visual artist, one was renowned for her dancing in her younger days. As Sister Cristina said in her first appearance on "The Voice," God doesn't want to take anything away from you, "He wants to give you MORE!" Sharing her gift with the world is precisely why God gave it to her; she is acting like the nun God made her to be. : )

She IS acting like a nun! Do you know any nuns? I'm blessed to live very near our local convent, and the sisters there are all astonishing, unique, gifted women. Some are funny, some are scary smart; some are gifted teachers, some nurses; one is a gifted visual artist, one was renowned for her dancing in her younger days. As Sister Cristina said in her first appearance on "The Voice," God doesn't want to take anything away from you, "He wants to give you MORE!" Sharing her gift with the world is precisely why God gave it to her; she is acting like the nun God made her to be. : )

She IS acting like a nun!  Do you know any nuns?  I'm blessed to live very near our local convent, and the sisters there are all astonishing, unique, gifted women.  Some are funny, some are scary smart; some are gifted teachers, some nurses; one is a gifted visual artist, one was renowned for her dancing in her younger days.  As Sister Cristina said in her first appearance on "The Voice," God doesn't want to take anything away from you, "He wants to give you MORE!"  Sharing her gift with the world is precisely why God gave it to her; she is acting like the nun God made her to be.  : )

Frozen in the dark. . .

Link:  Aleteia What To Do With Frozen Embryos

"d) leave them as they are, frozen, so that the process evolves naturally. Alternative d) seems the most ethically acceptable, as it doesn't interfere with the life of the embryo."

This option means leaving them in a situation where they will inevitably die; the "process" that is "evolving naturally" is their eventual "inviability" (i.e., death).  That does not seem ethically acceptable to me; it seems equivalent to "not interfering" with a child who is trapped in a car on a hot (or freezing) day.  Should we allow that "process" to "evolve naturally" in that case?  Clearly not.  If the children in question will SURELY die if left in the situation they are currently in (and they will), then steps must be taken to TRY to save their lives, even if that attempt does not always result in success.  It seems to me that yes, we should take steps to STOP the creation of any more "surplus" embryos, but also, we must decide what the best action to take is, with regard to those already living frozen in the dark.