Posted on 04/18/2012 2:14:30 PM PDT by Morgana
So, basically....there won’t be many nuns left, and all the DRE’s will get fired? /s
they will get the zot, i fear.
I am so glad to see this. The nuns who changed to street clothes are dying out and the young orders wearing habits are thriving.
I think just the oppostie will happen. Look at how the seminaries are now bulging since that aspect got cleaned up. I believe that we will see a huge about of new novices — wearing habits, BTW.
He might want to start in his own diocese. There is a woman who works at a parish in Seattle who has refused to support the initiative drive of the Catholic Church to try and reverse the "gay marriage" law that Gov. Gregoire signed recently. I don't think she is a nun; but, she is employed by the church.
It’s long past time. Unfortunately, the DRE’s won’t get fired and the the orders that are just dying but aren’t doing anything blatantly outrageous will be allowed to continue being dysfunctional...until the Nashville Dominican or some other group arrives at their door because the (new, orthodox) bishop has given them the property.
We have some sisters like this in my town. They are lovely people, individually, and some of them are very faithful, individually. But their habit and their community life have disappeared, they stopped doing the thing they were brought to this country to do (teaching) because they decided “modern women” needed to be something “better” than teachers, some of them are a bit fuzzy on doctrine without being outright heretics - and they haven’t had a vocation for over 20 years.
Not just one nutty sister, but 6 of the parish pastors have refused, actually. He needs to can them immediately.
But I don’t want to drag this thread away from its focus. I hope that it will be possible rescue some of the dysfunctional but not heretical orders by making them go back to their roots (prior to Vatican II, obviously). As for the others, who actually are disobedient, their doors should be closed immediately and they should have to go to the retirement homes of other religious orders. Because there’s nothing but gray hair among them. None of them have gotten vocations since forever.
Do you know her name?
things are about to get interesting in our neck of the woods.
The place people have to go to get their theology classes is heterodoxy all the way.
I suspect that once this begins in earnest, the Vatican will quickly learn that things are far worse than they imagined, and that the laity are pretty fed up with the misbehavior of some of these clergy.
I hope you are correct. I don't see it, yet.
See post #8. I looked for the article, but couldn’t find it anymore.
They ARE under obedience to teach doctrine. Abp Sartain would be right smack dab in the gyroscopic center of his authority if he told these pastors to preach about why sex between men or between women (or beween men and women who aen't married to each other) is morally wrong, forbidden by God. They could even throw in why the licensing of abnormal relations as "marriage" has a negative impact on the true secular, civil purpose of marriage, which is securing the normal conditions of procreation to protect the rights of dependents.
And if they don't or won't teach what the Church teaches, then these capon piests should be canned. Or, shall we say, reassigned to select vestment fabrics and run the Cathedral gift shop.
They aren’t ALL feminists. The older sisters don’t tend to be militant.
When I worked at a Catholic school (I’m Protestant), however,I certainly was surprised that there were so many radical nuns. Their very “mission statements” are extremely feminist leaning. (environmentally wacky, too)
The habits that nuns wear WERE the street clothes of the century that the order got its start. Even the the old “Flying Nun” wimples were very trendy in Nordic countries at one time.
Not just one nutty sister, but 6 of the parish pastors have refused, actually. He needs to can them immediately.
But I don’t want to drag this thread away from its focus. I hope that it will be possible rescue some of the dysfunctional but not heretical orders by making them go back to their roots (prior to Vatican II, obviously). As for the others, who actually are disobedient, their doors should be closed immediately and they should have to go to the retirement homes of other religious orders. Because there’s nothing but gray hair among them. None of them have gotten vocations since forever.
A good case can be made for plain, modest clothing befitting the culture you're living in
However the rejection of any distinctive clothing usually symbolizes a rejection of any distintive ministry. It's like a soldier who won't wear a uniform. He probably has a problem.
A good case can be made for plain, modest clothing befitting the culture you're living in
However the rejection of any distinctive clothing usually symbolizes a rejection of any distintive ministry. It's like a soldier who won't wear a uniform. He probably has a problem.
A strong case can be made for plain, modest clothing befitting the culture you're living in
However the rejection of any distinctive clothing usually symbolizes a rejection of any distintive ministry. It's like a soldier who won't wear a uniform. He probably has a problem.
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