Chances are these are LCWR nuns, but who knows?
Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain spoke of Jesus in his top secret talk to the LCWR Convention meeting at Disney World. After he spoke of Jesus to them, he then asked them to think with the Church and show fidelity to the Magisterium. I don't know if any of these topics will go over well with this mostly graying, post-Catholic group of embittered women.
From the NCR: One member said Sartain did not respond in any detailed way to questions about the specific allegations made in the Vatican doctrinal assessment of LCWR, preferring instead to talk about his general sense of the role of religious life in the church. Most of his talk, this person said, focused on Jesus.
At one point during his talk, one LCWR member said, Sartain told the sisters their role “is to be thinking with the church and fidelity to the magisterium of the church.”
Read the rest of the article at the National Chismatic Reporter (NCR) HERE.
3 comments:
Don't get your hopes up...Today, in Orlando, Sister Ilia Delio of the Sisters of St. Francis spoke. She is a devotee of Teilhard. Here are a few theological gems from her talk:
"There is no cosmos without God and no God without cosmos." (I guess that pretty much takes care of "...maker of Heaven and earth and of all things. visible and invisible.)
"Yes, we are stardust..." (Cue Hoagy Carmichael...and that takes care of ex nihilo)
"God is ahead of us, not up above. It is so awesome that we give birth to God." ( Too, bad, Mary, but we'll still respect you in the morning.)
Yep, Pope Francis and his designees are really bringing these gals around...I guess it is a good thing this is at Disney World...Alice in Wonderland would be proud...
Some of the old habits in that photograph do look silly, and perhaps needed to be adapted to the times. But that should not have been an excuse for reduction of the habit to a ring or pendent.
By the way, I'm reading "Sisters in Crisis: Revisited: From Unraveling to Reform and Renewal". Has anyone else here read this?
I agree that habits, (especially some of the head gear) needed to be updated and in fact the very first updating that the video I post shows was very promising, and very practical for sisters in active ministries. The Sisters of Mercy in fact modified their habit in a very wonderful way, but that only lasted a couple years before the veil went and complete frumpy unisexual garb and hairdos appeared. Most traditional Catholics of the 60's liked the modified habit but didn't care for what happened subsequently.
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