SHORELINE, Wash. (CNS) — She was an 11-year-old girl when the newly ordained priest came to her village parish on his first assignment.
Over the years, they have stayed in touch, through letters and personal visits.
The parish priest whom Sister Emmanuel, a Discalced Carmelite now living in Washington state, met five decades ago is now Pope Benedict XVI.
"He’ll be great," she said in an interview with The Catholic Northwest Progress, Seattle archdiocesan newspaper, at the Carmelite Monastery in the Seattle suburb of Shoreline.
"We need a pope to lead us to Christ," she said about the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
"He is rock-solid and we really need that." [Source]
In fact he is On this Rock-solid.
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Sr. Emmanuel and that entire community of Discalced Carmelites are an example of what nuns should be like. Their faithfulness to the Church, the Gospel and to their founder, St. Teresa of Avila is a credit to the Carmelite Order.
Mort Kondracke obviously forget about these nuns when he announced that “every Catholic nun in America” wants women to be ordained priests.
Though they are quiet and live a cloistered life, their prayers for the world and for priests is desperately needed.
I agree atheling, but we also have some really faithful external nuns who are really suffering some burdens here in the wild, wild west. Years ago, when asked to help produce vocation communication pieces for sisters in general, I was completely startled by the hostility liberal, unhabited orders had towards faithful, habited ones. I was niave, I thought ALL sisters were faithful to church teaching (isn’t that cute?) and I was eager to work with women who clearly made sacrifices for God and His children. KAPOW! Was I wrong. The unhabited nuns with whom I had experience were petulant, impatient and self absorbed. Those who took the viel, as they say, were the polar opposite. Perhaps it is unfair to catagorize all unhabited nuns in this fashion, but it was and has been my experience.