Posted on 10/27/2006 1:24:49 PM PDT by NYer
How can the be Nuns if they have excommunicated themselves?
Is no one loyal to the organization they work for and/are part of anymore?
Thank you for the statistics. You DID make my day.
I had never heard of this organization before.
I will pray for their enlightenment!
And rightly. Because every reasonable person knows that, while 21st century issues can't be looked up in the concordance, what you're really interested in is Biblical principles, not one-liner proof texts.
They also know, as Catholics, t hat the interpretation or application of Biblical texts is not something which is infallibly determined by each believer acting on his own. Scruipture itself says that the Church--- the Church--- is the "foundation and pillar of the Truth."
If they want to know God's evaluation of abortion, they can literally ask the Church.
I stopped reading after:
"An organization of Catholic nuns whose leadership includes four Colorado women is urging Catholic voters to challenge church teachings against abortion and gay marriage while weighing a broad range of social issues on Election Day."
Nothing new here. Blah blah blah. I didn't notice any new postulants in the photo. Hmmm, I wonder why.
I thought religous took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Their remarks are certainly not obedient to church teachings (or to their bishop) and what's up with the jewelery? So much for poverty ...
I was watching a rerun of Mother Angelica Live the other day. It had been taped in 1994 and Mother was explaining that the Holy Father had asked that all religious go back to wearing the traditional habits, and that was why they were now wearning the traditional habit. Guess these gals lost the memo ...
I thought religous took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Their remarks are certainly not obedient to church teachings (or to their bishop) and what's up with the jewelery? So much for poverty ...
I was watching a rerun of Mother Angelica Live the other day. It had been taped in 1994 and Mother was explaining that the Holy Father had asked that all religious go back to wearing the traditional habits, and that was why they were now wearning the traditional habit. Guess these gals lost the memo ...
Sorry for the double post. My mouse is on the fritz.
I used to be a lay associate of the Order of St. Benedict, and I got a close-up view of this about 35 years ago. The OSB's and other "progressive" orders, in a rather evasive way, "kept" their vows but re-interpreted them. (This is comparable to "honoring" the Constitution as "a living document," ergo killing your baby is elevated from a criminal offense to a Constitutional right, etc.)
"Poverty" was transformed into "solidarity with the poor," often in an explicitly politicized way. It meant "the interesting poor." Poor blacks and Mexicans were interesting. Poor Cambodians and Vietnamese, refugees from Communist terror, were not interesting. Miskito Indians were interesting until Daniel Ortega decided they were counterrevolutionary, and then they were not interesting.
"Chastity" meant... hmm. As I recall, it meant being unmarried and having your primary "bondedness" to other women.
"Obedience" was primarily horizontal: solidarity with other progressive nuns; loyalty to your Prioress or Superior, especially if she was in conflict with Rome; scrupulous compliance with the new norms you just wrote last week, together with stern reprimands toward refractory traditionalists who didn't seem to be getting with the program. This punctilious form of "obedience" was salient during the Great Pronoun Reformation: "Mary Margaret, our new rubrics do not allow the use of masculine pronouns for the Divine! Holy Obedience!"
The only cheerful and encouraging thing you can say about this, is that it is suicidal.
These bringers of damnation need to kick their butts kicked out of the Church pronto.
LOL! I could have guessed ...
This story came up at the Archdiocese of Denver Respect Life Conference. Somebody asked Archbishop Chaput about it following his talk, and he suggested those in the audience write to the sisters, since they obviously don't care much about what he thinks.
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