Gee, I wonder what started happening right around 1965???
/sarc
Progressive. Nuns? Well they can enjoy a different religion.
Well.....bye.
Yet would it surprise you that there are traditional orders that are enjoying great growth and after the massive seminary clean up by the Vatican, with a massive crackdown, better priests have been ordained.
Sister Dianna Ortiz made headlines in 1989 when she abducted, tortured and raped while working as a teacher in Guatemala.
Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?
If they are “progressive” and do not support church teaching then they ain’t nuns
But I will just say a few things. First, the only new nuns are young and conservative. All the "progressives" are old and in dying orders. Who wants to join an order that is not really Catholic when you can just stay in the world and ply your progressive trade freely? So the only orders getting new recruits are the ones who follow Church teaching.
For more than four decades Sister Jeannine Gramick has been tireless in her fight for gay rights through her organization New Ways, despite coming under intense scrutiny from the Vatican.
Sister Jeanne Gramick has spent her entire life with her fist in God's face. She is the sole reason why the Vatican is cracking down on her and her minions.
The person who wrote this article is an idiot.
I was shocked, the education was first rate, the political indoctrination was not. I went to schools in MT, WA, and ID and never saw any thing like it.
“...the Church isn’t used to”
Time Magazine is in typical liberal media form here.
First, the Church doesn’t get used to things, people in 2,000 years, many Catholics included, have not gotten used to The Church.
This article is a push for the Vatican to get with it.
These nuns can do whatever they want, but when what they do is against Catholic teaching, they can simply call themselves something else, but not Catholic.
That’s all.
Vocations to the religious life are not dying out. There are vocations, and the ones which are growing are those in which there is a devotion and obedience to the faith.
Here’s something Time did not report, and will not report:
“Archbishop Chaput has said something similar in the past. The vocation crisis is actually those no longer answering the call to authentic marriage. He says that if that is fixed then religious and priestly vocations will increase. Basically religious and clerical vocations are often from strong, devout Catholic families so strengthening marriage and the family will lead to those that aren’t afraid to answer their vocation (what ever it may be).’
This group strongly attacked Pope John Paul II and allied themselves with the homosexual network within the church in the from the 1970s until the present.
Most of the convents these nuns got control of closed and their orders greatly declined. Most of the Sisters under their supervision left the vocation.
There are a large number of retired nuns. They are supported by their orders and are no longer active.
There are orders that still follow and support the true teachings of the Catholic Church. These are active, strong and rapidly growing. They have no access to the MSM and most in the MSM and the country as a whole don't even know they exist.
For decades the Sisters served as teachers, nurses and many other professions. They provided great support the their church and their communities. They were devout, holy, caring women.
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The Church isn’t used to women? How did little baby Catholics get here? (Yes, I know we are pagans until baptism)
I lived and worked with the Benedictine Sisters of Erie for 11 years as a Lay Associate, and I saw it happen up close and personal.
They're not in trouble for "working with the poor" or "being voices for the voiceless" or "serving the underprivileged" or any such thing. Women were leaving the convents in droves decades before the Vatican thought starting some "Apostolic visitation" --- an inquiry to find out what the heck's going on. It's because they deliberately divested themselves of their religious and vocation and identity, and then, surprise, there was no real reason to stay.
The sisters who still wear recognizable religious garb, who pray together on a regular daily prayer schedule, and who do the work they were founded to do (whether it's educating the handicapped or running a nursing home or religious publishing, evangelization, media work) --- are growing like kudzu.
Same thing with men's religious orders: the modernists are in rapid decline, the newer orders ("new faithful") are growing.
Sinsinawa Dominicans, largely post-Christian, semi-secularist feminists, avg. age probably about 75
They'll cease to exist within 10 years.
Nashville Dominicans (Dominicans of St. Cecilia), vibrantly Catholic, avg. ag roughly about 25
They are brilliant, growing faster than they can build new living space, and the future is theirs.
But that's kind of hard to do when you spend all your free time barhopping and/or shacking up with your slacker boyfriend.
I read the article at Drudge I think. Said the Nuns “want to work for an employee that values their work”
I thought that was strange...dont they want to work for God/Christ?
The article also referred to most Nuns as “progressive” Well I know what progressive means bin Liberal circles, God/Christ nor The Holy Spirit needs them anyway.
Progressive means they support gay marriage and murder of God`s unborn children.
And if they deny that, well just ask the US Nuns what party they support and there lies your answer.
Also it`s important to remember that a person could be a Nun a Priest or even Pope, and still not personally know Jesus or even be saved
If she's talking about the nuns of the LCWR, most of them are grey haired old women who jumped on the feminist bandwagon and left their Faith behind. Younger women who want the religious life aren't bothering with the 'progressive' orders, because they are not looking for 'women's rights', they're looking for an intimate relationship with our Lord, something the old gray haired women don't have, and maybe never had. So the old orders are dying out, and soon, will be irrelevant.
Who knew that nuns were an integral part of the fabric that holds society together?
Where would the world be without nuns? A far worse place?
Not likely.
Sheesh........ There's nothing that the Catholic church won't take credit for, is there?