LCWR assembly begins; Vatican representative told attendance 'would not be helpful'

Catholic Culture ^ | August 3, 2012

[NYer]

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, who has been charged by the Vatican with responsibility for supervising a reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), has been told by the group’s leaders that his presence “would not be helpful” at the LCWR’s annual assembly this week.

As the LCWR prepared for the annual meeting, at which members will discuss the Vatican’s demand for reform, the group’s president, Sister Patricia Farrell, told reporters that the group would continue to question Church teachings. She expressed concern that in the Vatican’s eyes, “that questioning is seen as defiance.”

“I would also say that there are very few doctrines in the Church that are not discussable, that are absolutely infallible,” the LCWR president said. She voiced her conviction that the women religious of the LCWR would “continue raising and responding to questions, according to our own consciences and according to new information and questions that arise in our day.”

The LCWR will discuss the Vatican’s call for reform, and the results of an apostolic visitation that pointed to serious problems with the umbrella group, which represents most of the women’s religious orders in the US. Sister Farrell said that she did not anticipate a vote on how the LCWR should respond, however. “Our process of discernment is typically not taking a vote,” she said.

Although the Vatican’s critique of the LCWR will be foremost in the minds of members, Sister Farrell reminded reporters that “we do have other important things to talk about” during the annual assembly.

[NYer]

LCWR Assembly 2012

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 to Saturday, August 11, 2012

St. Louis, Missouri

Mystery Unfolding: Leading in the Evolutionary Now

Keynote speaker: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Panelists: Tom Fox; Jennifer Gordan, SCL; and Jamie Manson

Registration materials for LCWR members and associates are available in the Members area of this website.

Every August, LCWR holds a national assembly of its members. This gathering provides members with opportunities for education, reflection on issues pertinent to religious life leadership, networking, prayer and celebration. The assembly also provides time for the members to vote for officers and on resolutions.

The assemblies are open to members who may participate fully in all aspects of the assembly, associates who participate without vote, and guests invited by the conference.

The assembly is moved to various sites around the country.

[NYer]

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Biography & Resources

 

 

Barbara Marx Hubbard is an author, public speaker, social innovator, and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She has initiated a guided educational program supported by Internet systems called Gateway to Conscious Evolution, offering a new developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution, now reaching over 1000 people.

She is creating a new vehicle, The Communion of Pioneering Souls, to connect the large group of evolving humans now arising in every culture, field, and tradition. She is developing a new series of videos entitled “Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.”

As a member of the Jonas Salk Foundation's Epoch B group, Dr. Hubbard is working to understand and catalyze the actions needed to navigate a quantum change to avoid global collapse. She is also working on the synthesis of the principles and practices of Conscious Evolution and New Thought with Reverend Jim Lockard.

She is a founder and member of the Santa Barbara Conscious Evolution Community. She is initiating the SYNCON Process, for synergistic convergence to overcome the polarization in the United States by bringing together opposing groups to seek common goals and match needs and resources in the light of new capacities at the growing edge of the sciences and the psychologies. Her websites are designed to be global communion/communication hubs for the conscious evolution of humanity.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. cum laude in Political Science, Dr. Hubbard studied at La Sorbonne and L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris during her junior year. In the 1960's she published one of the first newsletters on evolutionary transformation called The Center Letter in collaboration with Abraham H. Maslow, founder of Humanistic Psychology. She worked closely with Dr. Jonas Salk and was one of the original contributors to the Salk Institute.

In the 1970's she co-founded The Committee for the Future in Washington D.C., which developed the New Worlds Educational and Training Center based on her work. She co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences to bring together people from every field and function to seek common goals and match needs and resources in the light of the growing edge potentials of humanity. She was one of the original directors of the Center for Soviet American Dialogue and served as a citizen diplomat during the late 1980's. She has been instrumental in the founding of many important organizations and initiatives including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision and Action, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought. She was awarded the first Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by Emerson Institute.

Dr. Hubbard's books include Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future, and Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium.

[ConorMacNessa]

How cheeky of those heretics!　



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Tax-chick]

That’s a really pretty poster, but it looks like it’s advertising a modern dance performance.

[SumProVita]

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, who has been charged by the Vatican with responsibility for supervising a reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), has been told by the group’s leaders that his presence “would not be helpful”

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Lol! These “nuns” have strayed so far off track (and they KNOW this) that they definitely don’t want the Bishop to have a more in-depth view of the beliefs they are REALLY cultivating.

[maryz]

but it looks like it’s advertising a modern dance performance.

Reminded me of Mahony's "liturgical dance" . . . well, same thing, I guess . . .

[pepperdog]

Amazing and breathtaking. Nuns(?) telling the representative of the Vatican to take a hike. These aren't the dedicated women who taught me, but then those ladies were totally selfless and devoted to their calling. Don't know what the purpose of these “new” nuns are, but I suspect it's some sort of social justice mumbo jumbo.

[Tax-chick]

Reminded me of Mahony's "liturgical dance" ...

Except that a modern dance performance people are paying to see could be expected to have talented dancers and professional choreography ;-).

[SumProVita]

Yep...and it’s not even “social justice” per Catholic teaching. Such “nuns” are nothing like our wonderful Nashville Dominican sisters: http://nashvilledominican.org/Community/A_Day_in_the_Life

;-)))

[maryz]

LOL! Though actually the video clip I remember in Mahony's "cathedral" showed dancers that weren't bad. And they looked a lot better than another clip I saw of "liturgical dancers" who were middle-aged, about 50 pounds overweight (maybe 70 pounds overweight for a dancer!), not noticeably lithe, but swaddled in those diaphanous drapes -- now they were totally embarrassing to watch, regardless of theological concerns!

[Tax-chick]

Oy. There is a place for dancing as an expression of religious fervor, but it’s not during Mass or any other liturgy.

[Pecos]

It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen such fluffy crap.

[Rashputin]

. . . told by the group’s leaders that his presence “would not be helpful”

They're going to be spinning out a whole new series of lies for their media pals so of course anyone who is actually Catholic, much less an Archbishop, wouldn't "helpful". I don't understand why why the Vatican hasn't just excommunicated the lot of them and abolished their lesbian coven rather than letting them continue to pretend they're Catholic.

[ArrogantBustard]

There’s a great, huge Christ-shaped hole in this dreadful mess ...

[redgolum]

Isn’t that nice.
I wonder when they will become Christian?

[Salvation]

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