Ping!
“Are matters with the LCWR really resolved—with a whimper? Maybe. Frankly, I doubt it. I have a hard time believing that a group whose leadership has thumbed its nose at the CDF and bishops and has so often ignored (or even denied) Church teaching is going to so suddenly change its spots. I’d like to be wrong on that count. But, time will tell. In the meantime, let’s hear it for more truth in headlines and the stories beneath them. “
I think time will be the best ally of all. No real concession or reform on the part of the LCWR. Just the women therein will slowly die off, replaced ironically by the type they replaced back in the sixties. Replaced by women such as in the CMSWR.
30-50 years, tops. And then we’ll be back where we started, before the disaster of the sixties.
A friend of mine shared an observation to me, and my own experience seems to confirm it: the liberal/progressive orders of nuns who do not wear habits are quickly dying out. They are not are not getting new recruits. The young women who are entering Religious life and taking vows are going to the old school orders who wear habits and more and are far more interested in serving God and their fellow humans than being political activists. I have been impressed by the number of young (and attractive) women whom I have met who were serving as Novices or who had just completed their formal vows in recent years wearing the Habits the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
A friend of mine shared an observation to me, and my own experience seems to confirm it: the liberal/progressive orders of nuns who do not wear habits are quickly dying out. They are not getting new recruits. The young women who are entering Religious life and taking vows are going to the old school orders who wear habits and are far more interested in serving God and their fellow humans than being political activists. I have been impressed by the number of young (and attractive) women whom I have met who were serving as Novices or who had just completed their formal vows in recent years wearing the Habits the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.