Golden Coconut Award
In November, Coming Home began a monthly award, the Golden Coconut, an award for the coconut pro-abortion apologists who spout the most anti-scientific nonsense in the headlong pursuit of butchering babies.
There has been one individual within the Catholic Church who is deserving of the December AND the Year-End Award, and that is Sister Carol Keehan, a member of the Daughters of Charity.
Sr. Keehan has had herself a banner year. She gave political cover to politicians on voting for Obamacare, rode to the defense of another sterling woman religious, Sister McBride, who has been presiding over a hospital that aborts babies in the case of rape, incest and the “mental health” of the mother (which means anything that might be on the stress scale at all). Keehan also defends McBride’s governance which includes sterilizations of men and women, and the prescribing of all manner of contraceptives, many of which are abortifacients.
In statements defending Catholic Healthcare West, of which St. Joseph’s in Phoenix is a member, Keehan stated:
“They carefully evaluated the patient’s situation and correctly applied the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services to it, saving the only life that was possible to save,” and that CHW and St. Joseph’s were “well-known” for a “long and stellar history in the protection of life at all stages.”
This in direct opposition to Ob/Gyn’s on the ethics board in Phoenix, and a Bishop with a doctorate in Canon Law.
The National Catholic Reporter has named Sr. Carol Keehan as their very first “Person of the Year”. A serious award from a publication that has long been the broadsheet for the shadow magisterium in America.
First Ever Award!
FB friend, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf writes:
National Catholic Reporter has named Sr. Carol Keehan as their very first “Person of the Year”.
Even though she was head of the Catholic Health Association, a political lobby group, before 2009 Sr. Keehan was relatively unimportant.
Then Sr. Keehan, as an exponent of the Magisterium of Nuns facing off against the Catholic Bishops, gave cover to “catholic” pro-abortion politicians to vote in favor of legislation that would ultimately provide taxpayer money for abortions.
But this honor NCR is giving to Sr. Keehan isn’t really about her opposing bishops or bishops’ conferences.
This isn’t really about nuns being persecuted by a Vatican investigation.
This isn’t really about the conflict between women and bishops or women’s roles.
This certainly isn’t about compassion for the poor, or health care.
Sr. Keehan’s award is about abortion, and bringing the abortion business into “catholic” hospitals.
NCR is offering Sr. Carol Keehan as the acceptable Catholic face, the poster person, for compassionate access to abortion for poor women.
NCR honors Sr. Keehan because this year she did more than anyone else to change the perception that Catholics must oppose abortion.
Quite a legacy.
Quite a legacy indeed. For her efforts, Coming Home joins the National Catholic Distorter in recognizing Sr. Keehan’s life’s work. For her untiring defense of those who strike at the child of the womb, for her consistency in striking at the Bishops and undercutting their authority, for misrepresenting public policy and Canon Law, for leading souls astray via her shadow magisterium, it is the responsibility of Coming Home to award her the highest distinction it can bestow on a leader in the Culture of Death,
The Golden Coconut Award.
The great solace for the Church and the Culture of Life is that orders such as Keehan’s will cease to exist in another fifteen years, as most of their members will have died off, and the remaining will be very old and in retirement and nursing homes. Young, vibrant and faithful communities are springing up in their place and renewing the Church landscape.
Rebellion and death are hardly the stuff of vocations posters. Young women with a love of the Lord don’t want to sign on to community life with a bunch of angry old women. Keehan and her ilk are living anachronisms. Their rebellion, their pro-abortion advocacy is part of a feminist rage at perceived inequity because of a male-only priesthood. It is a quid pro quo with the lives of babies, and the spiritual and psychological welfare of the mothers whom they lead astray.
They are angry women, whose sin of anger leads them into a scorched earth campaign.
Along with her Golden Coconut comes sincere prayers for her conversion of heart and reconciliation with the Bishops whom she has repeatedly struck with wicked claw.
My thanks to pro-life friend and activist Tina Mahar for bringing the NCR award to my attention.
Coming Home 
Plus she makes 800K yearly and has a gaggle of assitants who make in the six figures, emblematic of the bureaucratic takeover and Dilbertization of medicine. Her outfit, the CHA, represents the 3-button suits of healthcare. In contrast, the CMA represents doctors. The latter is faithful to the Magisterium. The former is her own magisterium.
Wonderful blog as usual! Imagine the NCR giving that Sister an award. ** sigh ** and calling her courageous? For agreeing with the popular “culture of death” view? What a lie! NCR is another which should REMOVE the word “Catholic” from their name. UNBELIEVABLE! 😦
Sue,
That’s why they’re called the National Catholic Distorter.
Snaul, how do you know she makes 800K a year???
Wow, if I had known I could make that being a nun, I would have taken vows a long time ago.
L.,
If I could make 800K a year as an RN nun, I’d become one too!
Ah — apparently, she doesn’t keep her salary. It goes to her order: http://catholickey.blogspot.com/2009/08/sr-carol-keehan-catholic-healths-856093.html
Rats. So much for my get-rich-quick scheme!
all the worse if that much money goes to her order, Daughters of Charity.
I wonder if they have many vocations though.
I can’t imagine the Good Lord calling too many women to serve an organization that helps kill babies…..
And no amount of money can replace vocations. Without vocations, it doesn’t matter how much money you have. You’re dead.
L,
I’m privately relieved. I wasn’t really all that pumped up for becoming a Daughter of Charity 😉
Not a shock to anyone involved in healthcare. The Daughters of Charity have been playing games – fast and loose – with the Bishop’s Directives, abortion, sterilization, etc., for years. That it is not common knowledge constantly amazes me.