Posted on 04/16/2015 9:50:17 AM PDT by NRx
The Vatican has abruptly ended its standoff with American nuns, announcing that the investigation and oversight of the nuns’ main leadership group has been finished two years earlier than expected, without instituting any major changes that would affect the group’s practices or direction.
Four of the leaders of the American nuns’ group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, were called in to an unexpected meeting on Thursday with Pope Francis in the Vatican that lasted 50 minutes. He did not speak publicly, but the sisters said afterward in a statement that they were “deeply heartened” by Francis’ “expression of appreciation” for the lives and ministry of Catholic sisters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Just more proof that Francis could care less about Catholicism. Do whatever in the world you feel like doing, that’s his motto. Worse pope in the last 500 years.
Another sad disappointment, another sad bad sign, another sad license for pretenders, which may be the more exact term for the year of mercy. The “sad year of license”.
The NYT is the last source for the whole truth of the matter, so we will be following up with more reliable sources, but the Times accorded the protestant do-gooders a seal of approval in those last two powder puff paragraphs.
Not so many years after Francis passes on, the rapidly aging heretical crones of the LWCR will follow him to the grave and their orders will evaporate as a bed memory. By that time, we will have a newly elected pope worthy of the office. Such a pope will spend his time more valuably than running phony climate change conferences and validating the defiant heresies of LWCR.
That is a very optimistic prognostication considering Francis could live for many years and he has the power to stack the College of Cardinals with like minded men.
The fact that the College of Cardinals selected him to be pope, indicates that it is already stacked with like-minded men.
Thank you, BlackElk.
I simply hope these old gals are unable to perpetuate their dissident Catholic politics into the future, through their younger followers.
Come, Lord Jesus.
People so quick to jump on this NY TIMES piece and talk about how sad it is and what a travesty Pope Francis is. Normally people are skeptical of a source such as this. Well, here’s a better source (and some excerpts) :
“The LCWR promised that materials it publishes first will be reviewed to “ensure theological accuracy and help avoid statements that are ambiguous with regard to Church doctrine or could be read as contrary to it”. In addition, programmes sponsored by the conference and speakers chosen for its events will be expected to reflect Church teaching, the statement said.”
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“After asking Archbishop Leonard Blair of Hartford in 2008 to carry out the doctrinal assessment of LCWR, in April 2012 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith called for the revision of LCWR’s statutes and bylaws. The reform, the Vatican said, was meant to ensure the conference’s fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality. The organisation’s canonical status is granted by the Vatican.”
Go read this source instead of NYT garbage.....
Ridiculous headline. (sigh)
There is a lot of truth to what you're saying, but perhaps there might be a deeper truth in what BlackElk says. By the way - Hi, BlackElk, glad to see you back again. Hope you're doing better.
Anyway, you're right, NRx. This Franky guy could make a bunch more cardinals who could try to impose more shenanigans on the Church. But the problem is, there's no one to follow. With regard to religious sisters, only the orthodox orders are growing, are recruiting new members. I go to Mass - there are no sisters, anymore. Except in one parish. With a very conservative, orthodox order, with a very orthodox pastor. And the sisters take up two pews at every Mass.
The communities filled with bitter old lesbians are dying off. They can have as many cardinals on their side as they care. If no one will follow them over the cliff, they'll eventually die out. What is left - the more orthodox orders - may struggle against an entrenched, out-of-touch hierarchy, but in the end, they will win out. Because they will be the only game in town.
Thus it is generally. The laity may be in disarray, many parishes may be losing members, many people may be leaving the Church. Most people are like the foolish virgins. Demographically, not enough young people are marrying in the Church, having children, bringing up the next generation. But the ones who stay, the wise virgins, so to speak, the ones who continue, who actually do the things they're supposed to do, for them, the Church, and the larger society will be theirs. Everyone else will find himself on the outside, in the outer darkness, wailing and gnashing his teeth.
You can't beat something with nothing. Even if it's only a remnant that remain, they will emerge the victors, as there won't be anyone else left to defeat them.
But I suppose I'm making more of an eschatological argument, in the end. Death does not conquer. And you already knew that.
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Wait, if I’m reading this correctly it seems to me that they are saying that the issues were corrected (and that is why the “battle” is over)?
The problem with the ‘liberal’ religious orders is that they are not attracting new members. When an order decides not to wear habits, and allows nuns to work as individuals in a community instead within their religious community, they negate the purpose of the order itself.
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