Joanna Manning
Posted on 12/16/2011 1:53:36 PM PST by NYer
December 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For over three decades Joanna Manning, a former nun turned lesbian feminist pro-abortion activist, plagued faithful Catholics, causing scandal, embarrassment and much frustration. On November 27 Manning was made a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, a Church which has openly accepted homosexuality and abortion. It was a day when, as her friend and fellow dissident Catholic Ted Schmidt wrote, “I am sure God smiled and the angels danced.”
It’s a rare occurrence when I’m able to agree with Schmidt, but on this occasion, I do, and not for the reasons many would expect.
To be sure, I’m relieved that Manning will no longer, under the guise of a “faithful Catholic,” spout for the eager ears of the mainstream media diatribes against the pope - many of which she penned in her book Is the Pope Catholic. She will no longer be able to speak ‘as a Catholic’ representing the pro-abortion activist group ‘Catholics for a Free Choice’ – as she did during the effort to remove the Vatican from its official observer status at the United Nations.
She will no longer be teaching students (and teachers) at Catholic schools about the glories of gay sex, and how the Church must embrace it as “the creative energy of God.”
Believe it or not, this radically unorthodox ex-nun was head of Religion and Chaplaincy at Monsignor Johnson High School in Etobicoke, Ontario. Moreover, she reveals in her biography that she developed high school curriculum for the Catholic school Board and even for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. She sat as an executive on the Catholic teachers union and was hired by the Faculty of Education at York University to teach theology to teachers working in the Catholic School Board.
However, this is not the cause of my joy at hearing of the latest news about Joanna Manning. I don’t regard Manning as an enemy; I do not wish her harm in any way. I wish her only the very best: happiness – eternal happiness. To get to that place however, she must still travel a long road, but with this move she has taken a first step.
While Manning was a professed Catholic she was causing much harm not only to the faithful and to society in general but also harming herself.
We should all live authentically, to represent faithfully what we profess. Although we may at times fall, we then acknowledge our faults and try to mend our ways, always maintaining the truth of the principles despite our weaknesses.
However, it is quite another thing to profess a religion and be regarded in the public eye as a representative of it and then misrepresent its teachings: to decide that a church should be different, more to your personal tastes, and then to try to subversively change it from within.
It is much better to be true to oneself and to reject the hypocrisy of claiming one reality and teaching another. Either call yourself a Catholic and embrace the teachings of the Catholic Church or else join another community of faith and be true to its tenets. There is honor in being true to one’s conscience in that way.
In leaving the Catholic Church and joining the nouveau Canadian Anglican Church (not to be mistaken for the pro-life and pro-family Anglican Network in Canada), Manning can now be true to herself and her professed religion. That spirit of rebellion which took hold of her many years ago has less of a grip on her in her new home.
Perhaps, and this is my fervent prayer, Manning will come to realize what she has given up and long for it once again. I don’t mean what she has given up lately in now embracing her status as a non-Catholic, I mean what she gave up many decades ago – her acceptance of God’s design for human sexuality, for life and family.
And what an amazing conversion story that would be! God would surely smile, and the Angels dance.
As that guy on the airline commercial always says.......”It’s a win-win situation........” :-)
Pray for the end to abortion.
abusive turkey basters?
Anglicans get what they ask for. Plus, she's ugly.
I’d like to know why she left. And was not forced to leave.
It’s amazing what some religions tolerate these days.
Indeed. All this hand wringing about how terrible a person is just that when she is left among the flock.
Those who refused to act are her enablers.
I agree. It's difficult to understand why she was so long tolerated rather than excommunicated - which is what the Christian church according to Paul in the epistles to the Corinthians demanded they do. The leaders failed in their obligations. The article said, "I am sure God smiled and the angels danced.” I think it is rather the god of this fallen world and his fallen angels that are smiling.
she left the Church a long time ago...
The word we use is "bishops"... hirelings, what have you.
most lesbians are not pro abortion. They are merely women who prefer a woman instead of a man. Some were born that way, others have too much male hormone, and other chose to love a woman because of prior abuse by men.
However, Feminists are pro abortion, and many feminist organizations are run by militant lesbians who see men as the enemy, the family as a patriarchal plot to stop equal rights, and children as an obstacle to their self realization...
If I understand 2 John 10, 11 correctly, NOT removing one like this constitutes a sharing in the sin itself.
Sure, why not? We’re not talking about otherwise Godly men who just “oops” happened to let some pedos and homos run riot. I didn’t use the term hirelings, and we don’t talk about the “Lavender Mafia” because it makes things sound fun.
Great explanation. Thanks.
It seems that every time there’s a trade between Holy Mother Church and the Anglicans, Holy Mother Church gets the franchise players (Newman, Manning, Graham Leonard, George Rutler, etc.) and the Anglicans get the taxi squad rejects (Matthew Fox, Alberto Cutie, and now Joanna Manning).
1. Anglicans are converting to Catholicism by the demoninations, WITH their Anglican priests. Anglican groups (by churches) started writing to the Vatican some 40 years ago asking to be re-united with Rome.
There is in place a brand new Ordinarium, just for these Anglican converts, along the lines of the Ordinarium for our military. The Anglicans will get to keep their own Liturgy, with the new Transubstantition, of course.
This had to happen as a reaction to the major liberalization of their faith.
2. She's ugly for two reasons:
a. Her hair belongs on a woman (or man) forty years younger.
b. One CANNOT stop imagining the, um, lesbian aspect without shuddering. It's a built-in reflex of a naturally built human being.
FWIW.
I agree with all you say but one statement.
There is, so far, no "gay" gene. I USED to believe that homosexuals were born that way, as least some of them. But, you KNOW that there has been EXTENSIVE research to find this mythical "gay" gene done in this world to validate homosexuality. You KNOW tons of money, time and effort has been spent on this search.
So far, zilch.
It might happen someday, that a "gay" gene is found, but, as yet, one has to say that people ARE NOT born homosexual.
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