Sister Carol Zinn, a Sister of St. Joseph, who is president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, receives a blessing before her Aug. 12 address at the annual LCWR assembly held in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 12.
Posted on 08/18/2014 7:05:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
Sister Nancy Schreck’s keynote address to the LCWR 2014 annual assembly was equally confused and defiant.
Sister Carol Zinn, a Sister of St. Joseph, who is president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, receives a blessing before her Aug. 12 address at the annual LCWR assembly held in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 12.
"We have been so changed that we are no longer at home in the culture and church in which we find ourselves.”
This quotation from the keynote address (PDF) of Franciscan Sister Nancy Schreck to the August 12-15 annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is startling, considering that it comes from a vowed member of a religious order who is speaking for other sisters. While Catholics should not feel at home in this modern culture, not feeling at home in the Catholic Church is indeed another matter.
Yet that quotation and many of the other statements in Sister Schreck’s keynote do help explain why the LCWR has resisted the reform that was ordered two-and-a-half years ago by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and reaffirmed in April 2013 by Pope Francis.
The 2014 LCWR assembly was particularly significant, because the group chose to bestow its annual Outstanding Leadership Award on Sister of St. Joseph Elizabeth Johnson, whose book, Quest for the Living God was cited for doctrinal errors by the US bishops in 2011. And when LCWR leaders made their annual visit to the Vatican this past April, CDF Prefect Cardinal Gerhard Müller told them the decision to honor Sister Johnson was “a rather open provocation against the Holy See and the ‘Doctrinal Assessment’” that “further alienates the LCWR from the [United States] bishops as well.”
Cardinal Müller reminded the LCWR leaders that the 2012 mandate included a requirement for.....
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Are those women?
Supposedly.
Keep it up, ladies. I hope the Holy Father kicks your apostate asses right thru the uprights.
CC
They are Modernist nuns. Their religion does not match up with that of the Church very well.In essence they are Protestants who want to stay organizationally in the Church because without it they would just be strange women and would have to immerse themselves more formally in secular politics to retain any sort of self identity.
Need to liberate them then.
Let them stew in their own juice, and they will die off after a few years, because they are certainly not attracting any young women to their religious orders.
As a Catholic man, my response is, ........”Who?..... Whatever...”
“Nuns” (actually, they are not nuns, they are religious sisters) in chasubles (which is men’s clothing), giving a “blessing” (which is impossible, since they are not priests).
Obviously, the Vatican strategy is simply wait until they are all dead, which should be in about ten years.
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