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| birth_date = [[1966]] |
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'''Sister Teresa Forcades''' is a [[Spanish]] [[Benedictine]] nun born in [[Barcelona]] in [[1966]]. |
'''Sister Teresa Forcades''' is a [[Spanish]] [[Benedictine]] nun born in [[Barcelona]] in [[1966]]. |
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Teresa Forcades i Vila | |
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| Teresa Forcades i Vila | |
| Born | 1966 |
| Occupation | Benedictine nun |
| Known for | Christian feminism, 2009 flu pandemic vaccine opposition |
Sister Teresa Forcades is a Spanish Benedictine nun born in Barcelona in 1966.
Education
She studied medicine at the University of Barcelona. In 1992 she moved to the United States, where in 1995 she completed a residency at University at Buffalo School of Medicine, specializing in internal medicine. After obtaining a scholarship from Harvard University, she moved to Cambridge where she graduated with a master's degree in divinity in 1997.
She entered the Monastery of St. Benet in September 1997, and celebrated the greatest Benedictine Ora et Labora, joining the order working in different matters in religious study, theology and medicine. In 2004 she obtained a Ph.D. in public health from the University of Barcelona. In 2005 she obtained a degree in theology. After four years, in 2009 she received a doctorate from the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia.
Positions
Teresa Forcades understands feminism as a form of liberation theology. She agrees with the principle of defense of life as a gift from God that must be respected from conception until natural death. She has questioned whether it can be morally right to violate the mother's right to self-determination in order to save the life of the unborn child. She believes that the right to self-determination so-conceived is as substantial and absolute as the right to life; in fact, the right to self-determination is the right to spiritual life, it is what allows people to recognize human life as something more than biological life.
During the height of the swine flu pandemic, she claimed that the flu vaccine was rushed into research and production, and lacked proper scientific basis for public use.
Bibliography
She has written three books.
- Els crims de les grans companyies farmacèutiques (The crimes of big pharmaceutical companies)
- La Trinitat avui (Trinity today)
- La teologia feminista en la història (Feminist theology in history)
References
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External links
- Biography of Sister Teresa Forcades
- Teresa Forcades' facebook page (catalan)
- Feminist theology in history
- Teresa Forcades speaks in a detailed video data that casts doubt on the flu vaccine.
- The above video with Subtitles in English
- Campanas por la Gripe A - Debunking. Well documented video showing detailed mistakes in Teresa Forcades arguments.
- Clarification from Sr. Teresa Forcades
- Desmontando a la monja-bulo. El País 1 January 2009
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