Posted on 09/12/2009 4:08:05 PM PDT by NYer
At the National Conference of the US Resource Center for Religious Institutes, to be held at the Atlanta Georgia Hilton hotel this October, one of the workshops is described as follows:
Workshop #28: Going Non-CanonicalMary David Walgenbach is indeed a good speaker for the topic since she and her fellow former Benedictine sister, Joanne Kollasch, have left their order but spent several years sewing up a legal arrangement whereby they could keep the assets and build a new property in Madison, Wisconsin.
Neal Smith, Mary David Walgenbach, OSB & Dan Ward, OSB
The story of a small Benedictine community’s journey of becoming non-canonical. The content includes their ecumenical ministry, visioning process, development of an ecumenical board, relationship with the Federation of St. Gertrude and canonical and civil procedures for the transfer of assets.
As women's religious congregations continue to get smaller in North America, they are exploring a variety of options for what their communities might look like in the future, and the Madison Benedictines offer one example.Well here's another option to explore: what we need is a group of intelligent, like-minded young women who can get into one of these orders before it completely collapses, provide compassionate and high-quality nursing care for the elderly sisters, and then transform the congregation, restore the habit and all the lovely chapel furnishings, and make good use of the real estate for the restoration of traditional faith and religious life. This is an idea I sometimes suggest to devout young women with leadership capacity but none of them has yet taken it up. Come on! We need some St Teresa's in the Church today - you don't even need to build convents, just take over the existing ones!
Sisters ... why not simply take it one step further and leave. Please remember to turn off the lights behind you.
On what basis can they make a claim to the assets if at the time of its founding this was a “canonical” organization? The article is unclear on what the precise nature of their disagreement is with the Roman Church.
WOW! What lookers!
Another passage from Catholic to pagan.
With regret, sisters, you have left the Church. May God in His infinite wisdom and Grace bring you back.
So Catholic nuns seceding from the Catholic church to go non-Catholic get to keep the property, but Anglicans seceding from the Episcopal church to maintain Christian beliefs do not (in most of the cases). Clearly the devil has better lawyers!
One example in this wonderful mosaic of the post modern era of Catholicism. /sarc
Just another last ditch attempt to hurry along the change for change sake (under the guise of Vat II whether rightly or wrongly interpreted) before the other shoe drops and that nice bishop in Rome tries to tell them they can't.
They must have disregarded the memo from Pope Benedict - the cafeteria is closed.
I wish they'd take your advice. They sincerely want to help us. Any of us who've heard the 'finally' realizing the springtime of Vat II to justify changes the nice bishop in Rome (heard this new one from several people lately) would surely not agree with (as they care not of his approval). They are sincere. And caring. And leading many astray.
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