In a spirited retort to the Vatican, a group of Roman Catholic nuns is planning a bus trip across nine states this month, stopping at homeless shelters, food pantries, schools and health care facilities run by nuns to highlight their work with the nation’s poor and disenfranchised.
Because the whole reason the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is investigating the LCWR is because of their work with the poor. You know how much the Vatican hates nuns and sisters working with the poor and providing healthcare. The beatification of Blessed Mother Teresa was a close thing because the CDF objected to her work with the poor and the healthcare her order provided. Once the Vatican hears about consecrated religious opening up food pantries they immediately get put on the inquisition list.
Now if these consecrated women religious really wanted to plan a bus trip that was more symbolic of the LCWR they would also stop off at a the Women’s Ordination Conference, a Reiki Training Center, a provide advice that helps religious leave their orders and start non-canonical ones taking the properly along (yes the LCWR actually did this), go to and abortion clinics and pray for choice.
Or how about instead of complaining about crackdowns and whining about the hierarchy they actually helped address the actual problems. While they do indeed do many good works, it does not mean that dissent and bad works become acceptable. We are all called to holiness and have to admit and repent of our faults.
I haven’t been able to confirm this, though I think this is the bus they will be using.
“We’re doing this because these are life issues,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a liberal social justice lobby in Washington. “And by lifting up the work of Catholic sisters, we will demonstrate the very programs and services that will be decimated by the House budget.” (Source)
Use the same NETWORK that supported pro-abortion Obamacare and is not outraged at all by the HHS Mandate. Obamacare directly led to forced funding of abortion-inducing drugs. For NETWORK federal funding for social programs is mandatory, and the unborn can be sacrificed to the federal altar. What is being ‘decimated” is the unborn.
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>Obamacare directly led to forced funding of abortion-inducing drugs.
Oh noes! People who aren’t you are going to be managing their own bodies!
And also an insurance company will have to pay for it. Imagine that! A medical insurance company paying for pills!
I can see how that completely takes away your religious freedoms.
When is Jesus going to come back and fix all of this?!?!
Awesome:
Twenty-four hours ago news broke that the Vatican had condemned the book “Just Love:A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,” a publication by a prominent nun-theologian that disagrees with church teaching on same-sex marriage, masturbation and remarrying after divorce. Monday morning, the book’s reported ranking on Amazon: 142,982
Tuesday afternoon, after a day of furious news coverage of the Vatican censure: It’s at #16.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/nuns-vatican-condemned-book-on-sexuality-shoots-up-the-bestseller-list/2012/06/05/gJQAkuKCGV_blog.html
A quick note: this is an improper use of decimated. To decimate is to kill or destroy one in every ten. abortion kills far more unborn children.
“religious leave their orders and start non-canonical ones taking the properly along” –Could you cite a reference? I have suspicions that some members of another such group are planning just this sort of move.
I believe the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart are an example of a non canonical order. They reestablished themselves when they couldn’t , in good conscience, follow the demands of Cardinal McIntyre. I know they still run Immaculate Heart High School, an outstanding private school, along with an ecumenical retreat center in Montecito,Calif. They provide an excellent example of a successful break with the traditional church. These women continue to live lives devoted to divinity while remaining relevant in the world. The IHMs are bold, intelligent, courageous women.
(((I haven’t been able to confirm this, though I think this is the bus they will be using.)))
Hey Jeff! That’s a gravey looking and/or I think “I” meant to say http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy but then again maybe “I” wanted to say a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterodactylus great looking so called catholic none religious bus.
sinner vic THAT WILL BE ENOUGH OUT OF YA! HOW MANY TIMES MUST me, myself and i TELL YA THAT “I” DON’T WANT YA to try and salvage any of my cells by yourself?
But Boss! we spiritual cells taught that Lived backward cells said that “IT” was OK as long as we make fun of “Catholics” and no body knows about “IT” ? 🙁
Look guys and gals this is not the place or time to discuss these issues cause walls have ears here if ya know what “I” mean?
Boss are you talking about http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2012/06/06/planned-parenthood-wants-your-children/#comments .. and if so you can relax cause we’ve got most of Wesley’s spiritual imaginary cells on our side riding the bus with those nones, I mean nuns.
What do you mean not funny anymore and if we don’t stop there will also be a few other invisible cells on that bus and let’s just say that Victor wants to be in that number when and if http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6ktYq0Yxk&feature=fvsr
Go Figure! 🙂
Peace
Jeff I think that Victor must have forgot to send you this one cause you didn’t post “IT” yet! 🙂
(((I haven’t been able to confirm this, though I think this is the bus they will be using.)))
Hey Jeff! That’s a gravey looking and/or I think “I” meant to say http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy but then again maybe “I” wanted to say a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterodactylus great looking so called catholic none religious bus.
sinner vic THAT WILL BE ENOUGH OUT OF YA! HOW MANY TIMES MUST me, myself and i TELL YA THAT “I” DON’T WANT YA to try and salvage any of my cells by yourself?
But Boss! we spiritual cells taught that Lived backward cells said that “IT” was OK as long as we make fun of “Catholics” and no body knows about “IT” ? 🙁
Look guys and gals this is not the place or time to discuss these issues cause walls have ears here if ya know what “I” mean?
Boss are you talking about http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2012/06/06/planned-parenthood-wants-your-children/#comments .. and if so you can relax cause we’ve got most of Wesley’s spiritual imaginary cells on our side riding the bus with those nones, I mean nuns.
What do you mean not funny anymore and if we don’t stop there will also be a few other invisible cells on that bus and let’s just say that Victor wants to be in that number when and if http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6ktYq0Yxk&feature=fvsr
Go Figure! 🙂
Peace
Wow, the “Mystery Machine!”
The move of former Wisconsin Benedictine nuns to a non-canonical foundation is documented here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_34_43/ai_n27361488/
The tour wouldn’t be complete without a visit to a labyrinth.
I wonder if the benefactors or members of their surviving families could sue these “nuns” to recover their donations? My guess is that large donations of cash or property were donated on the condition that they be used to promote the faith. Since these ladies have abandoned the faith and are using the donations to promote all sorts of moonbattery, they might be violating the conditions of the gifts.
Fr. Philip Neri, OP
>stopping at homeless shelters, food pantries, schools and health care facilities run by nuns to highlight their work with the nation’s poor and disenfranchised.
That’s “moonbattery”?
Women! When will they know their place? It’s not deciding what is right or wrong or what their religion is about, that’s the exclusive domain of the penis bearers!
Ya give the chicks the right to vote and get jobs and not have babies and it’s Hell in a hand-basket!
Salvage, so predictable. I was referring to the “sisters” who removed themselves from the church and took the property with them.
Both the CDF and I are aware of the many good works the sisters do. The CDF acknowledged as much in the first paragraph of their assessment. . .not that anyone in the media has bothered to actually read the document. The LCWR was not investigated for helping the poor. They were investigated for portraying themselves as Catholics while teaching against the faith. That’s false advertising.
Fr. Philip Neri, OP
>.not that anyone in the media has bothered to actually read the document.
Well that’s because it’s all very silly. It’s a bit like children yelling at each other over the rules of Pokemon. While to them it’s an important as the Declaration of Independence to outsiders it’s more than a little baffling.
>They were investigated for portraying themselves as Catholics while teaching against the faith. That’s false advertising.
Yes, that’s what I addressed when I said “It’s not deciding what is right or wrong or what their religion is about, that’s the exclusive domain of the penis bearers!”.
Isn’t it weird that your perfect god came down and made the One True Religion and yet almost instantly schisms appeared, groups splintered and violence followed?
But I know, these dastardly nuns have the wrong end of the stick with all this helping the poor nonsense, saying they’re like Jesus while helping the poor! They should be more like the Pope sitting on a gold throne or his Bishops giving tons of cash to hush up child rapists.
Yeah, I do keep on going there but I will keep on going there any time someone suggests that the Vatican leadership has any authority be it moral or otherwise.
But predictable, as you say, just as predicable is y’all ignoring the abuse perhaps telling yourself Jesus has forgiven them so must you.
Wow. Salvage is tediously predictable. He must have one of those Random Anti-Catholic Bigot Text Generators. The Hate just keeps on coming. And here I thought atheism was supposed to be tolerant, open-minded, and reasonable. Guess not.
>He must have one of those Random Anti-Catholic Bigot Text Generators.
Ha! Ha! Yes! Me stating facts means I hate Catholics!
>The Hate just keeps on coming.
Ooooh not just hate but Hate!
>And here I thought atheism was supposed to be tolerant, open-minded, and reasonable.
No, you still don’t understand what atheism means, it means there are no such things as gods, it says nothing of tolerance, open-mindedness or anything else. No gods, that’s it.
But I do confess you got me, I do hate child rapists, well abusers of children of any kind. I hate those that cover for them, that enable them to hurt more children and I certainly hate those who quietly pay off the rapists but fight tooth and nail to prevent the victims from getting monetary compensation. Do you know that their latest strategy is to delay and wait for the plaintiffs to give up or die?
It’s a bigotry that I am comfortable with but please tell me why I should be tolerant, open minded and reasonable about supporting people who hurt children and enabling them to do it again.
Re: the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in LA. In the early 1970’s, I think, about 2/3 or more of that group left the congregation. Many became a non-canonical group called the Sister For Christian Community. The ones who stayed continued being IHM’s, but at a great loss of their financial and property assets. The SFCC members have continued to call themselves “Sisters” but live as they will as a rather loose organization that even has some “priestesses” as members. Some members have been listed in various dioceses as “Religious Sisters”, a practice that I hope stops soon.
In South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia we have a priest by the name of Father Robert Maguire.
They kicked him out of his church ’cause he was to old , eventually.
Certainly not because he was controversial & a holy pain.
One can catch his short story on the net-
just google Father Bob.
Heh: “It found the LCWR had “serious doctrinal problems” and accused them of staying “silent on the right to life” and failing to promote the Church’s view of heterosexual family live and sexuality amid debates on the issues in the US.” But math is hard!