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Steichen told LSN that the only trouble with this picture is that the “good sisters” made in the image of this archetype are mostly an artifact of U.S. history and are now nearly extinct. LCWR represents about 80 percent of the 57,000 religious sisters in the U.S., with an average age of 74 and climbing. With the exception of a handful of young, deliberately faithful, countercultural, and largely recently-founded communities, the LCWR nuns and sisters have abandoned not only the habit that symbolized their devotion, but the faith that defined it, she said.

The religious core of Catholic sisterhoods was replaced decades ago, she told LSN, by an extreme left political ideology manifested in a feminism that has grown increasingly radical and bizarre, and in recent years, infused with New Age and occult practices that have nothing to do with Catholicism.

I'm wondering if this move by the CDF just might be an exercise in futility and a waste of Archbishop Sartain's time. If these religious orders are as far gone as Steichen says, then suppressing them might really be the proper option, here.

On the plus side, I have met some of the young, orthodox, devout and hard working younger nuns and I was very impressed. One group is of a fast growing denomination that are having a hard time meeting the needs of so many new members so quickly.

Another order in particular minister to Native Americans and are in very high demand. They have to “rough it” a lot in very rural places in the US where there is great deprivation, even of food and fresh water.

They truly put these elderly, leftist NINOs to shame.

What a tangled mess. Almost 1,800 congregations and convents represented here, each with a different story. It would take Solomonic wisdom-- and I can only wonder why this wasn't dealt with on a case-by-case basis by individual bishops over the past 40 years?

It's like weeding out a once-lovely garden which has heirloom roses of irreplaceable beauty, and weeds with taproots the size of your leg.

As I know, eyeing the kudzu in my backyard.

**I’m wondering if this move by the CDF just might be an exercise in futility and a waste of Archbishop Sartain’s time.**

No way is it a waste of the CDF’s or Archbishop Santain’s time.

Remember all the fuss when they started looking into the seminaries — I can refresh your memory if you wish.

This will prove very fruitful in the shutting down of the dying out orders and the implantation of new orders of sisters who are very orthodox and serve Christ first, rather than their own ideas.

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