The news media likes portraying the nuns as victims of an oppressive power structure, but it's not true.
If anything, it's the nuns who are often oppressive. They are in charge of very powerful charitable, medical and educational organizations which enforce the maxims of political correctness and a regime that is so thoroughly secular that if it weren't for the vaguely shaped crucifixes and minimalist Catholic statuary, no one would think of associating these institutions with Catholicism.
Here they are "protesting" in front of a church that offers a Latin Mass. It's on the marque.
The Vatican is cracking down on a group that represents 80% of the nuns in America. It says America's Leadership Conference of Women Religious is speaking out on issues the Catholic faith doesn't support, but now local Catholics and other faiths are standing in support of the group.
In its assessment the church asked the LWCR to reform and separate themselves from issues like women's priesthood the inclusion of the gay community and social-economic justice. Today, nearly two dozen Catholics, and even people of other faiths gathered here outside St. Mary's in a strong showing of local support. Helaine Arnold – Supporter of LCWR: “We're not here to protest anything. We're here to support, here to say we believe in these people.”Link too wbday...
I love that guy with his cane, classic!
ReplyDeleteSomething to think about...and I'm coming from the perspective of a faithful Catholic who agrees that the LCWR needs to be cleaned up...I don't understand why so many traditional Catholic bloggers keep pointing out that it's only old people who cling to heterodoxy and liberalism. Every time I see someone write that the "youth and energy" is in traditional parishes and groups, I feel compelled to remind them that the youth and energy was also behind Barack Obama's election in 2008. In other words, orthodoxy is right because it's right, not because the cool, hip, young, pretty people are drawn to it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would like to add...since when is it okay to mock, critize, and condemn people pointing out their age or the color of their hair? What happened to respecting people - all of God's people? Can't we focus on the issues without being so seemingly judgmental about the outward appearance of the people involved? I would hate people to judge us as foolhardy just because we are young; why do we do the same do our elders?
ReplyDeleteThe point is that it's Boomer nuns who want to continue practices like "Feminist Spirituality", and those orders are dying out.
DeleteThe traditional orders are packing in young women, who really want to be nuns.
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ReplyDeleteDon't get so upset over trifles. The point being made is that the tired 60s hippie generation is dying off and hopefully, their ideas with it.
No need to wax hysterical over an amusing anecdote.
I'd like to focus on the fact that it's always a certain generation of people with the same tired, heretical ideas, and that they need to move on, preferably to an adoration chapel where they can make peace with almighty God before they make the most important journey of their lives.
ReplyDeleteAnd can't we focus on that - or even write "amusing anecodotes" without being so judgmental and prejudice against our elders? I'm ashamed of some of us sometimes..as we seem to think that anything is okay in the name of "holiness".
ReplyDeleteI'm ashamed that more people don't tell these people off when their moral indifference, sentimentality and narcissism is the cause of the ruin of the Faith.
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