Posted on 04/18/2012 2:14:30 PM PDT by Morgana
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Exactly. The sisters in my town were French (originally) and had a large head dress that required starching, pleating, etc. It obviously needed changing.
However, now they all stump along (they’re all elderly - there haven’t been any vocations there for decades) in their polyester pants and pastel tops with their hair cropped or curled by the same salon that does the hair of every other old lady in town. Nobody even knows they’re members of a religious order.
Again, except for a couple of them, they’re not raving heretics. But they sure can’t be very happy right now, nobody recognizes them as sisters, and I think they’d actually be relieved if the bishop ordered them back into habits (it’s a diocesan order, so he could do that).
There’s a lot of pride involved in this. Some of the earlier superiors drank the Vatican II koolaid, and even against their better judgment, did some things that were serious mistakes. And now they don’t want to back down and admit it.
So somebody else has got to intervene.
True. And thanks for reminding me, I need to pray. I look back (at age 60) at so much I did over the years that turned out to be part of the problem. It takes a long time to realize it, thud-headed as we are.
True. And thanks for reminding me, I need to pray. I look back (at age 60) at so much I did over the years that turned out to be part of the problem. It takes a long time to realize it, thud-headed as we are.
“However, now they all stump along (they’re all elderly - there haven’t been any vocations there for decades) in their polyester pants and pastel tops with their hair cropped or curled by the same salon that does the hair of every other old lady in town. Nobody even knows they’re members of a religious order.”
Oh man that puts it perfectly. Who would want to join when the current members obviously don’t treat it like a big deal? They are probably proud that that no one wants to join them, mission accomplished.
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I think a lot of them feel the same way. It was the times...
Actually, one of them did say to me that she was happy that nobody wanted to join because it meant that they had proved there was no longer a need for religious orders...go figure.
In my charitable moments, I think she was just trying to make herself feel better for her part in destroying the order. In my less charitable moments, I think the kool aid had destroyed her rational capacity.
Every neighborhood should have one
No, I am sure that many of them think that the Orders are of the patriarchal past and need to go the way of large and slow flightless birds. A visiting priest once said in his homily that the priest shortage is a blessing, as it provides so much more opportunity for the laity. After his vapid homily I was almost convinced he was right.
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They, and other Catholic charities, do 95% of all the down-and-out care in our city. That includes care for the elderly who aren't sick, unmarried mothers, the sick/dying in hospices...and they even pay for burial.
City coffers open up for them: 10% of CC operating costs. Catholic Charities picks up the other 90%.
At one time the city DEMANDED that they give homosexuals the same marriage perks as heterosexuals. :o) I laughed because the Church has been dealing with the Medicis for centuries and can handle little pimp mayors on a rampage.
The Catholic Church one-upped the pimp: they gave EVERY employee of theirs, married, single, whatever, BENEFITS +1. So, a straight man could add his mother, brother or uncle to his benefits...NOT just for homosexuals.
I knew how successful it was because the perpetrator of this farce SCREAMED and SCREECHED for weeks, SO pissed off at the Church for pulling one off on him. It was hilarious.
Well, put, as usual.
I went to the Holy Land last year, with Steve Ray.
At the hotel we were staying there was a LARGE contingent of Korean Catholic nuns. Amazing.
We were told that Asia is the new Christian frontier.
Weird, weird, weird.
I am so happy to hear this news. For too long, far too long, the Church has tolerated this defiant heterodoxy to the scandal of the faithful. I hope they land on these heretics and land hard.
Very true. There are lots and lots of enthusiastic, loyal Asian nuns and priests, and we will see more of them every day (including converts from those communities in the US).
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