A Catholic Emissary At Protestant Church

NY Daily News ^ | 9/8/01 | Charles W. Bell

[Orual]

She does not wear a habit. The order, which is down to 34 members in the U.S., including four who work in the city, officially abandoned religious garb in 1976.

[FormerLib]

>>>But if she worries about what the Pope might think, she disguises it well.<<<

And a fine witness she makes to the discipline of obedience. /sarcasm off

[FormerLib]

Heads-up ping.

[ventana]

Why doesn't she just convert.

[Jim Noble]

>>Why doesn't she just convert<<

Catholics make terrible Protestants.

[Orual]

Why doesn't she just convert.

I have a feeling that St. Ursula is asking the same question.

[Valin]

With that garb how could they have anything to say to the modern world?
< / sarcasm >

[Cicero]

Why doesn't she just convert.

It's a question you could ask a lot of dissenters who remain in the Church. The most positive construction you can put on it is that they think they are doing the right thing, changing the Church into something they think is better. The most cynical construction is that most of these people have job tenure and at least minimal financial and social support, and they don't want to give it up. If she left the Church, she'd have to go out into the cold world, get a job, find a place to live, and pay for her meals.

[SlickWillard]

If she left the Church, she'd have to go out into the cold world, get a job, find a place to live, and pay for her meals.

Ouch.

[patent]

She does not wear a habit. The order, which is down to 34 members in the U.S., including four who work in the city, officially abandoned religious garb in 1976.

Merely a sign of a deeper rot. Not wearing the habit, while generally reflective of the deeper problems, is not nearly so dangerous as the rest of her theology.

patent  +AMDG

[SlickWillard]

The order, which is down to 34 members in the U.S., including four who work in the city, officially abandoned religious garb in 1976.

CHRISTIANITY has almost been vanquished in Britain, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor told a gathering of priests yesterday. Christ was being replaced by music, New Age beliefs, the environmental movement, the occult and the free-market economy, the Archbishop of Westminster said. In a candid and unscripted passage of his speech, the Cardinal also spoke of the damage and shame brought to his church by the scandal of paedophile priests. His analysis of Britain's spiritual decline echoed the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, who last year said: "A tacit atheism prevails. Death is assumed to be the end of life. Our concentration on the here-and-now renders a thought of eternity irrelevant." But the Cardinal, leader of 4.1 million Roman Catholics in England and Wales, went much further. The extent to which Christianity informed modern culture and intellectual life in Britain today had been hugely diminished, he told the National Conference of Priests in Leeds.

[SlickWillard]

Rise & Shine.

[Orual]

...The order, which is down to 34 members in the U.S...

I thought this the significant passage in the quote.

[patent]

...The order, which is down to 34 members in the U.S...

I thought this the significant passage in the quote.

An awfully high number for a group like that. It will soon be zero.

patent  +AMDG

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

But if she worries about what the Pope might think, she disguises it well.

Wonder what her Bishop thinks?

The church is Marble Collegiate, the historic Fifth Ave. Reformed Church where she also is the resident Bible scholar.

Does she preach using the Douay-Rheims Bible or a Protestant Bible?

[gcruse]

>>>But if she worries about what the Pope might think, she disguises it well.<<<

And a fine witness she makes to the discipline of obedience. /sarcasm off

Yes, indeed.  A true testament to what is possible, rather
than letting someone else tell you what is permissible.
Why, it's positively American!

[FormerLib]

There is nothing 'positively American' about ignoring one's obligations and responsibilities.

[gcruse]

 She still lives in Kingston, in the order's house, and commutes by bus, a 90-mile trip that
takes two hours each way. That's okay, she said, because she uses the time to study.

There is nothing 'positively American' about ignoring one's obligations and responsibilities.

".... she was asked to lead Bible lessons for adults. "

Looks to me like she is answering the Great Commission.
Of course, if she should be taking orders from someone higher
than God, I could only but agree with you.  And, she
could be wrong.  I mean, even Jesus Christ blew one out of twelve.  :)

 

[FormerLib]

>>>Looks to me like she is answering the Great Commission.<<<

She was probably doing that when she took on her vocation in the first place. Why she acts one way while claiming to follow another path is anyones guess.

>>>Of course, if she should be taking orders from someone higher than God, I could only but agree with you.<<<

Very cute, but hardly amusing. The fact is that has obligations as a Roman Catholic nun. I don't think we'd like if very much if our servicemen, who have sworn to uphold our Constitution, suddenly reinterpreted that obligation.

>>>And, she could be wrong. I mean, even Jesus Christ blew one out of twelve. :) <<<

Very cute, but hardly amusing. Do you find ridiculing the faith of another to be a heartening experience? Perhaps you should consider who you serve when you act in that manner.

[gcruse]

"Very cute, but hardly amusing. Do you find ridiculing the faith of another to be a heartening experience? Perhaps you should consider who you serve when you act in that manner."

Why, of course. I'm ole Scratch hisself, with a coterie of sinning nuns. Oh, sorry. Make that singing.