MY COMMENTS FIRST: Pope Francis will be clarifying the evangelical mission of every Catholic according to their state in life and it will be intimately bound to the ecclesial mission of the Church in union with the Holy Father. Laity will be called to be laity in the Church. Priests and bishops will be called to humble submission to the will of the Lord as it pertains to their ordained ministry and women and men religious will be called to accountability too as it pertains to the evangelical mission of the Church and the public witness that each group makes! It doesn't get any better than this folks! The Magisterium of the Church is emphasized below and as the Second Vatican Council authentically teaches about this supreme authority in the Church in union with the successor of St. Peter! Keep in mind that women religious of a dinosaur breed think Magisterium equal patriarchy and must be crushed. They are so out of date, aren't they?
Communiqué of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
concerning a meeting with the Presidency of the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
Today the Superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith met with the Presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in the United States of America. Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain, Archbishop of Seattle and the Holy See’s Delegate for the Doctrinal Assessment of the LCWR, also participated in the meeting.
As this was his first opportunity to meet with the Presidency of the LCWR, the Prefect of the Congregation, Most Rev. Gerhard Ludwig Müller, expressed his gratitude for the great contribution of women Religious to the Church in the United States as seen particularly in the many schools, hospitals, and institutions of support for the poor which have been founded and staffed by Religious over the years.
The Prefect then highlighted the teaching of the Second Vatican Council regarding the important mission of Religious to promote a vision of ecclesial communion founded on faith in Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Church as faithfully taught through the ages under the guidance of the Magisterium (Cf. Lumen gentium, nn. 43-47). He also emphasized that a Conference of Major Superiors, such as the LCWR, exists in order to promote common efforts among its member Institutes as well as cooperation with the local Conference of Bishops and with individual Bishops. For this reason, such Conferences are constituted by and remain under the direction of the Holy See (Cf. Code of Canon Law, cann. 708-709).
(MY COMMENT FIRST: THIS IS THE REALLY REALLY REALLY POWERFUL BOMBSHELL AND IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!) Finally, Archbishop Müller informed the Presidency that he had recently discussed the Doctrinal Assessment with Pope Francis, who reaffirmed the findings of the Assessment and the program of reform for this Conference of Major Superiors.
It is the sincere desire of the Holy See that this meeting may help to promote the integral witness of women Religious, based on a firm foundation of faith and Christian love, so as to preserve and strengthen it for the enrichment of the Church and society for generations to come.
WOMEN RELIGIOUS FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, POPE BERGOGLIO LEADS THE WAY AS PATRIARCHS SHOULD!
2 comments:
Dinosaur Days indeed. Something went terribly wrong after V2 with women's religious communities. Even the well-meaning ladies serving our parishes who look like nice laypeople have fallen victim to this rupture. Those religious groups, as we know them, will not exist in another 10-20 years and the unfortunate necessity of this document will be history. Good news: New religious communities are rising from the ashes of the oldster's self-destruct. There will be no mistaking who they are: A visible sign of contradiction among us.
I must say that it is most excellent that the CDF statement simply refers them to V2, and a re-affirmation by Pope Francis of Benedict's original decision. They have wandered far off the reservation, of course, in the decades since the Council closed, and it is sad that it took so long for correction to be asserted. Sadder still that they are so clearly resistant to the authority to which they vowed obedience.
Still, it is par doe the course: the smoke of Satan, after all, has wreaked havoc. All the more for the fact that these misguided souls see their positions as either independent of or senior to the Holy Father.
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