10 Episcopal nuns in Archdiocese of Baltimore to join Catholic Church

The Catholic Review ^ | Aug. 27, 2009 | George P. Matysek Jr.

[MDJohnPaul]

After seven years of prayer and discernment, a community of Episcopal nuns and their chaplain will be received into the Roman Catholic Church during a Sept. 3 Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien.

The archbishop will welcome 10 sisters from the Society of All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor when he administers the sacrament of confirmation and the sisters renew their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the chapel of their Catonsville convent.

Episcopal Father Warren Tanghe will also be received into the church and is discerning the possibility of becoming a Catholic priest.

Mother Christina Christie, superior of the religious community, said the sisters are “very excited” about joining the Catholic Church and have been closely studying the church’s teachings for years. Two Episcopal nuns who have decided not to become Catholic will continue to live and minister alongside their soon-to-be Catholic sisters. Members of the community range in age from 59 to 94.

[vladimir998]

“Two Episcopal nuns who have decided not to become Catholic will continue to live and minister alongside their soon-to-be Catholic sisters.”

Hmmmmm...will they receive the Eucharist at Mass?

[AppyPappy]

Episcopal nuns. Hmmm....

[A.A. Cunningham]

They shouldn't but the two who don't convert are already more Catholic than the Chittister's and Prejean's of the world.

Mother Christina Christie (left), Sister Mary Joan Walker and Sister Emily Ann Lindsey depart the chapel of the All Saints Sisters’ of the Poor convent in Catonsville. The sisters are part an Episcopal order that will be joining the Roman Catholic Church Sept. 3. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)

"Orthodoxy and unity were key reasons the sisters were attracted to the Catholic faith. Many of them were troubled by the Episcopal Church’s approval of women’s ordination, the ordination of a gay bishop and what they regarded as lax stances on moral issues."

[Austin Scott]

The sisters who remain Episcopal (including the former Superior) will be ministered to by an Episcopal priest and will not receive the Host consecrated by the Roman chaplains. The sisters are extremely well educated theologically and aware of the implications of being in and out of communion with one another. But they are also bound by life vows to their monastery and to one another.

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[Salvation]

Would that depend on the local Catholic Bishop? I really don’t know the answer to your question because the Eucharist is different in the Catholic church as you well know.