Thursday, April 19, 2012

Here's a sign that the '60s may end during my lifetime.

Vatican begins to reform American nuns.

The spirit of "Goddess-worshipping" craziness that has gone mainstream in a lot of mainstream Protestant denominations has been circling the Catholic women's religious community for years.

Addresses at the LCWR Assemblies. Addresses given during LCWR annual Assemblies manifest problematic statements and serious theological, even doctrinal errors. The Cardinal offered as an example specific passages of Sr. Laurie Brink’s address about some Religious “moving beyond the Church” or even beyond Jesus. This is a challenge not only to core Catholic beliefs; such a rejection of faith is also a serious source of scandal and is incompatible with religious life. Such unacceptable positions routinely go unchallenged by the LCWR, which should provide resources for member Congregations to foster an ecclesial vision of religious life, thus helping to correct an erroneous vision of the Catholic faith as an important exercise of charity. Some might see in Sr. Brink’s analysis a phenomenological snapshot of religious life today. But Pastors of the Church should also see in it a cry for help.

And:

The Cardinal noted a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith in some of the programs and presentations sponsored by the LCWR, including theological interpretations that risk distorting faith in Jesus and his loving Father who sent his Son for the salvation of the world. Moreover, some commentaries on “patriarchy” distort the way in which Jesus has structured sacramental life in the Church; others even undermine the revealed doctrines of the Holy Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the inspiration of Sacred Scripture.

2 comments:

John Kasaian said...

This is an act of love and mercy! The prunes in pant suits orders are dying off and their throwes of death activities are spiteful and vindictive. Perhaps they can be saved, perhaps not.
They are being replaced with thriving new orders of joyful, habit wearing young sisters who smile a lot and share an awesum faith!
Perhaps were are witnessinng a kind of evolution---the LCWR must evolve or or fossilize (they already seem well on the way to fossilization!)

Lauran said...

The nuns at Berkeley were complaining that the Church's "new" stringent rules would force them out of their sorority pads and back to convents and prayer.

Grownups are so mean.

 
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