Sen. Barbara Mikulski on ‘Being Educated by the Nuns’

This morning NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen interviewed Barbara Mikulski, the longest serving female senator in U.S. history. Mikulski talked inspirationally about her Catholic faith.

HANSEN: What of your personality and political savvy can be traced back to your Baltimore roots?

MIKULSKI: …. I went to Catholic schools and was educated by the nuns. Their emphasis on leadership, service, and also the values of our faith contained in the Beatitudes, Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount. To hunger and thirst after justice.

HANSEN:  It is true that you almost became a nun, but the discipline might have been too much.

MIKULSKI: Well, you know … every one of my age who saw these wonderful women who taught us and dedicated their lives we all wanted to emulate them. But you know the nuns take these vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.The one for me: obedience. I think I would have had a hard time with that one. But so would Harry Reid or George Bush!

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3 responses to “Sen. Barbara Mikulski on ‘Being Educated by the Nuns’”

1. About Barbara Mikulski,

   Raised Catholic, taught by nuns, different interpretation about unborn, abortion, killing an unborn child is murder, it kills a beating heart, it’s a child not a choice. Save the Baby Humans. The fact that she had Catholic Education and her position on this issue makes it even worse. She knows better and should change her position immediately. If everybody called her offic e and used the full two minutes in her email to voice their protest, this would send her a strong message and at least get her to reconsider

2. I’m sure Mikulski’s Catholic teaching DID teach her about being pro-life and protecting the unborn. She may interpret that teaching differently than you do. Her Catholic teaching also taught her about respecting human dignity and protecting those already born. I found her speech made last March on the floor of the U.S. Senate in support of a reconciliation bill to adjust health care reform legislation signed into law very informative. You might too: http://mikulski.senate.gov/media/speeches/32410hcrfloorspeech.cfm

3. I wonder if her Catholic teaching taught her anything about being pro-life and protecting the unborn…because her politically record proves otherwise.