Posted on 06/09/2012 2:41:42 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The United States is in the midst of a major investigation by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) into the group that represents 80% of the country’s 57,000 nuns.
“The problem is that it is now hard to distinguish between what the nuns do and what lay social workers do,” said Ann Carey, a Catholic journalist and author of Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women’s Religious Communities.
“This is not about one or two specific incidents but a general drift away from Catholic belief.”
The CDF is the Vatican’s toughest office, the group charged with making sure the faithful do not stray from Church teaching. It never does anything lightly, so this investigation is already expected to have dramatic implications for the way American nuns conduct their lives.
Reuters files Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, in 1999 when he was Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “I think the inference that many people could draw from the publication of the Vatican document is that we are unfaithful, that we are not in communion with the Church,” Sister Pat Farrell, the LCWR’s president, told the National Catholic Reporter this week. “We really do not see ourselves in that way.”
The Vatican has already appointed a committee of bishops to revise the LCWR’s statutes and develop new programs for the nuns that would deepen their understanding of Church doctrine.
Its latest salvo has exposed a seemingly dysfunctional relationship between hierarchical Rome and highly educated American women raised in a country where free thinking and notions of independence are national virtues.
The idea of independence for nuns is anathema to the Church hierarchy, which sees obedience necessary for all Catholics.
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The Vatican is simply applying the law of non contradiction. One cannot say, as these women seem to believe, two contrary/contradictory propositions are both true.
The Vatican is simply applying the law of non contradiction. One cannot say, as these women seem to believe, two contrary/contradictory propositions are both true.
Good luck with that, Sister. At what point in your consecrated life did you forget that the Church is not a democracy?
BS....I attended an RCIA meeting at our local Church 20 years ago and during the Q%A I asked the sister who was presenting the lecture "what is the precise definition of the Eucharist?". All I got was a deer in the headlights look.
After she left, my dad said she should get a job.
**The United States is in the midst of a major investigation by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) into the group that represents 80% of the country’s 57,000 nuns.**
This is a good thing. The same thing happened several years ago with the seminaries — there were no vocations for the priesthood. The seminaries got cleaned out and now they are packed with young men who want to become priests.
In a few years, after all this is over, the good convents will be packed with young girls wanting to dedicate their lives to prayer and service.
God bless Pope Benedict!
Check out the highlighted link for some pix of these radical nuns — warning though! LOL!
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Franciscan Friars Back American Nuns in Vatican Spat
Pastor Completely Loses It Over LWCR
Roman Catholic Womenpriests-USA stands behind LCWR
Nun Too Accurate Reporting
Sisters of Mercy President Defends Farley, Criticizes CDF
Major Vatican Assault Coming in October, Says Former Maryknoll Provincial
Vatican Warns Against Errors in Mercy Nun's 2006 Book on Sexual Ethics
Priests Come to Nuns’ defense
Leaders of U.S. Catholic Nuns to Address Vatican Reprimand About 'Radical' Feminism
Split over nuns' role plays out online (LCWR nuns complain about blogosphere)
ANOTHER WAY TO BEAUTIFY THE CHURCH or 10 REASONS NUNS SHOULD WEAR HABITS (Warning-graphic images)
Dallas bishop ‘communicating’ with nuns on their support for Gates’ global contraceptive campaign
When Reverend Mothers Cease Being Motherly
Nuns Issue Statement Defending Billionaire Contraceptive Campaigner Melinda Gates
Important Background Information About the CDF-LCWR Situation
Nuns Gone Wild: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Exhibit A for Explaining the LCWR Report
Vatican Crackdown on U.S. Nuns a Long Time Brewing
LCWR: getting to the truth of the matter (the blogosphere response to CDF document)
Radical feminist nuns’ group ‘stunned’ by Vatican criticisms, reform plan
Vatican announces reform of US women's religious conference (more details)
Citing doctrinal problems, Vatican announces reforms of US nuns' group
In hard-hitting document Vatican launches clean-up of feminist nuns in United States
LCWR Having a Bad Day. Vatican Names Archbishop Delegate to Continue Watching LCWR and Network
If they went back to the Habit even the plain/masculine looking nuns would appear prettier and more feminine.
You guys check out the comments over at the link?
Good to know FR is not alone in having non-Catholics overwhelm any decent discussion of solely Catholic issues.
This is quite a misleading statement. This group represents a very small fraction - themselves.
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