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Nuns In The U.S. Are Facing Scrutiny By The Vatican [Long Overdue!]
NYTimes ^
| July 01st, 2009
Posted on 07/01/2009 8:49:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:49:55 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Sister Sandra M. Schneiders has urged fellow nuns not to participate...
There's the problem right there. Sorry, sister. It doesn't work like that.
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:53:06 PM PDT
by
WSGilcrest
(Hey. I can quote myself.)
To: Steelfish
Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits or at least identifiable religious garb, ordering their schedules around daily prayers and working primarily in Roman Catholic institutions, like schools and hospitals.
When Nuns were Nuns!
To: Steelfish
The Pope promised to look into all this nunsense.
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:54:47 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Don't blame me -- I use Linux.)
To: Steelfish
They think of us as an ecclesiastical work force, said Sister Sandra M. Schneiders, professor emerita of New Testament and spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, in California. Whereas we are religious, were living the life of total dedication to Christ, and out of that flows a profound concern for the good of all humanity. So our vision of our lives, and their vision of us as a work force, are just not on the same planet. The Catholic Church is not a democracy. You don't want to follow their rules, leave (and I'm saying this as a Protestant).
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:55:18 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
To: Steelfish
The Progressive Movement even infected the Church.
To: Steelfish
There is no area where Vatican II did not do catastrophic damage.
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:57:06 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Steelfish
sorry sisters - no catholic gets to “reinterpret” anything.
You don’t get to “opt out” of an investigation, and when on earth are they going to purge the Jesuit virus?
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:58:47 PM PDT
by
Scotswife
To: Steelfish
"Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits or at least identifiable religious garb, ordering their schedules around daily prayers and working primarily in Roman Catholic institutions, like schools and hospitals."Imagine that, a nun being expected to order her schedule around daily prayers. I can't imagine what the Vatican might be thinking . . .
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:59:12 PM PDT
by
Think free or die
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - M.Thatcher)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
07/01/2009 8:59:24 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: Think free or die
I kind of thought that was the whole point of monasticism. Silly me.
To: Steelfish
May the excommunication of Sister Sandra lead to repentance and the return home with a humble and contrite heart.
Poverty, Chastity and Obedience
All things work for the good...
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:05:05 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
( Pray, Pray, Pray)
To: Steelfish
Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits or at least identifiable religious garb, ordering their schedules around daily prayers and working primarily in Roman Catholic institutions, like schools and hospitals.A valid concern considering that the duties of a nun are a closely held secret, and that no one decides to become a nun voluntarily and of their own free will. /s
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:11:21 PM PDT
by
frankiep
(Ron Paul was right)
To: Tamar1973
Article snip:
Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits or at least identifiable religious garb, ordering their schedules around daily prayers and working primarily in Roman Catholic institutions, like schools and hospitals.
ROFL... I recall Our Lord stating what would happen to those who were ashamed of him. Also those who cried Lord, Lord. Some will be shocked by his, “I don’t know you”.
Then again... no they wouldn’t, in their hearts.
They forgot... in the world, not of the world.
God’s will be done, not theirs. I remember someone else saying they would not serve.
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:11:51 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
( Pray, Pray, Pray)
To: Steelfish
To: Steelfish; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:13:54 PM PDT
by
narses
(http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
To: Scotswife
Sister Janice Farnham, a part-time professor of church history at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, said, Why are the U.S. sisters being singled out, when women religious in other countries are struggling with many issues about the quality of their lives, in the Church and in their societies? They have to start somewhere and the USA is a good place to start.
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:16:12 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
To: divine_moment_of_facts
You didn’t know that from all the gay pedophile settlements over the past 15 years?
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:17:30 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
To: Tamar1973
I agree, this idea that they can do as they please, is fine if they are not RC nuns...Don't like the rules, leave....Start your own religion...I am one that left the RC church several decades ago, but sure didn't expect them to change for me....that's nuts..Still much to like about the church...
To: Steelfish
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posted on
07/01/2009 9:20:37 PM PDT
by
this_ol_patriot
(I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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