Posted on 02/02/2022 7:50:20 PM PST by marshmallow
Pope Francis told religious sisters’ to fight back when they are treated unfairly or “reduced to servitude” by men of the Church.
“I encourage all consecrated women to discern and choose what is best for their mission in the face of the world’s challenges that we’re experiencing,” Pope Francis said in a video message on Feb. 1.
“I invite them to fight when, in some cases, they are treated unfairly, even within the Church; when they serve so much that they are reduced to servitude —at times, by men of the Church,” the pope said.
Pope Francis has asked Catholics to pray in a particular way in the month of February for religious sisters and consecrated women.
In his video message, the pope did not provide any more context for his comments on the mistreatment of religious sisters.
A book published in November 2021 in Italian entitled “The Veil of Silence: Abuses, Violence, Frustrations in Women's Religious Life” by Salvatore Cernuzio, a journalist for the Vatican’s news service, detailed the experience of religious sisters who recounted “abuse of power” within the convent – including a situation in which a sister’s report that a priest had attempted to molest her was brushed aside by a mother superior.
The pope mentioned in a speech in December that he had received a copy of the book by Cernuzio on “the everyday abuses that hurt the strength of the vocation.”
In his video message, Pope Francis encouraged religious sisters not to be discouraged, but to “keep making God’s goodness known” through apostolic works and the witness of their consecration.
“Let us pray for religious sisters and consecrated women, thanking them for their mission and their courage; may they continue to find new responses to the challenges of our times,” the pope said.
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How about the alter boys?
No to mention their altar boys.
Unless, of course, they are women pretending to be men.
And I’d bet he said not a word to the “men of the church”.
What if best for their mission is TLM?
The problem is in those who want to alter the altar boys.
Nothing like the few heterosexual priests within the church using convents as brothels, much like Japanese soldiers in WW II had “comfort women” provided for them. I believe one brothel, er convent, was shut down a few years ago because of this. As was a school for disadvantaged children.
That ain’t nothin’ Whoopie Biden told our wimmin to use a 12 gauges!
Well right now, hundreds of mothers of traditional priests are marching from Paris to Rome to confront Bergoglio about his "mistreating" their sons by prohibiting them from offering the True Mass.
March to Be Held Between Paris and Rome to Beg Pope Francis: Save the Traditional Latin Mass
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