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Sister Joan is on the loose again, shucking and jiving!
USA Today | 7/20/04 | Cathy Lynn Grossman

Posted on 07/21/2004 10:48:18 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA

Sister Chittister, alias the Hillary of the RCC, is on the loose again. Pepto Alert! USA Today won't permit posting of text of article due to a copyright issue with FR, so click the source URL to read the article.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2004-07-20-sister-joan_x.htm


TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholiclist; dissenters; scandal; shesaman
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1 posted on 07/21/2004 10:48:20 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA
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To: Convert from ECUSA
This should work.
2 posted on 07/21/2004 10:58:49 AM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
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To: sinkspur

Thanks! Keep airsick bags handy, that "nun" is an NINO!


3 posted on 07/21/2004 11:02:24 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (tired of shucking and jiving)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

They call her an "advocate for womens' ordination" ... they must be getting paid by the word ... "heretic" is much more succinct.


4 posted on 07/21/2004 11:03:42 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Convert from ECUSA
But her outspoken ways challenge any tired stereotypes of women religious

*chuckle*

If there's a stereotypical example of a modern nun, Sr. Joan Chittister is it.

5 posted on 07/21/2004 11:06:05 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: ArrogantBustard
three great streams of change: Vatican II, Vietnam and the women's movement

Notice that she's stuck in the 1960s?

6 posted on 07/21/2004 11:07:18 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: Convert from ECUSA

###"So why, half a century after her first vows, is she still a sister?"###

Normally I would say, "I would have to work for a living"

Instead I say, pray for her and her followers.


7 posted on 07/21/2004 11:08:53 AM PDT by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. Pray for our own souls to receive the grace of a happy)
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To: B Knotts

I would think she turned in her habit for a mini skirt at the time.


8 posted on 07/21/2004 11:10:13 AM PDT by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. Pray for our own souls to receive the grace of a happy)
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To: B Knotts; ArrogantBustard
Heeheehee! I look and her and I think of yet another example of why my Catholic friends kept telling me when I was Anglican that I was more Catholic than most US Catholics! Shoot, I think I was more Catholic than her and her kind when I was Messianic Jewish in the 1980s-early 1990s and when I was Baptist when I was a child! Yeeeeeeesh! Don't these fossils ever retire and go away quietly?!?!? (rhetorical question) They are as buzzy and annoying as yellow jackets at a picnic!
9 posted on 07/21/2004 11:11:51 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (tired of shucking and jiving)
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To: Convert from ECUSA; Salvation; B Knotts
"I can't not be Catholic!" she exclaims, calling her church a "treasure house" of culture, history, tradition and discipline that "develops the soul."

And reading what seems to be an utter lack of humility on Joan's part, this statement should follow:  "...of course, the Church has been doing it all wrong for over two thousand years now, so I'm here to set them straight!".

You know how we have FR prayer threads?  We should compile/contribute a list of names (including Sister Joan) and bump the thread every so often; without prayers, people like this will remain hopelessly misguided, imho.  Pax et bonum.
10 posted on 07/21/2004 11:18:14 AM PDT by GirlShortstop (« O sublime humility! That the Lord... should humble Himself like this... »)
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To: franky
Instead I say, pray for her and her followers.

franky, GMTA; you'll see it in my post above.  :-)  FReegards!
11 posted on 07/21/2004 11:21:42 AM PDT by GirlShortstop (« O sublime humility! That the Lord... should humble Himself like this... »)
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To: GirlShortstop
Misguided as she is, she especially needs our prayers.

Pray that she turns away from her dissent, and finds the Truth of the Catholic faith that she has been dissenting from these many years.

12 posted on 07/21/2004 11:24:16 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: B Knotts
Pray that she turns away from her dissent, and finds the Truth of the Catholic faith that she has been dissenting from these many years.  

Amen!


13 posted on 07/21/2004 11:36:53 AM PDT by GirlShortstop (« O sublime humility! That the Lord... should humble Himself like this... »)
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To: Convert from ECUSA
Joanie's in for a rude awakening during her particular judgment.


14 posted on 07/21/2004 11:39:55 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Convert from ECUSA; *Catholic_list; american colleen; sinkspur; Lady In Blue; Salvation; ...
Ahhhhhh ... it didn't take you long to discover a major catholic dissenter, so 'well respected' by the world! And the liberal elements within the church supports each other. Chittester's book is endorsed by (former) Archbishop Rembert Weakland. He's so modest that he set up his own web site. This, after destroying the Milwaukee Cathedral.

John Main Seminar 2004 - Joan Chittister

"Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men"
PDF Seminar Brochure & Printable Registration Form Here

Sr. Joan Chittister

July 29 - August 1, 2004
St. Michael's College
Colchester, Vermont, USA

Joan Chittister is a member of the Benedictine sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania. She is also the exceutive director of BenetVision, a resource and research center for contemporary spirituality. She is known worldwide for her powerful and prophetic teaching as much as for her advocacy of peace and justice rooted in the spiritual tradition.

The Seminar will be preceded by a SILENT RETREAT</B led by Fr Laurence Freeman OSB July 26-29. Email Contact for the Retreat and the Seminar here.



"Wisdom Distilled From the Daily"

Wise and enduring spiritual guidelines for everday living - as relevant today as when The Rule was originally conceived by St. Benedict in fifth century Rome.

"This work will become a classic on how Benedictine spirituality is simply the spirituality of the Gospels themselves and thus helpful for every follower of Christ" - Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B.

216 pages, soft cover.

15 posted on 07/21/2004 11:55:01 AM PDT by NYer (When you have done something good, remember the words "without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5).)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
. . . oooooof! . . .

I don't rag on people for being ugly, but she is DELIBERATELY ugly. She has no care for her appearance.

Whatever happened to all those lovely, calm-faced, bandbox-neat religious who smelled of starch and soap?

16 posted on 07/21/2004 12:21:15 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: NYer
:) When I first heard of this "sister", I was still Anglican. I picked up one of her works a few years ago just out of curiosity. Within reading one chapter, it was clear that she was what I call a "romanized episcopagan" and no real Catholic and into the trash went her tome! I told a Catholic friend of mine about my discovery and he told me I'd hit one of the three major mother lodes of dissent, the "sister" herself, "fr." Greeley, and "fr." McBrien. Learned back then that I'd have to do the filtering thing with Catholic works and authors, just as I had to do when I was Evangelical and when I was Anglican. As for Weakland and what he did to the Milwaukee Cathedral......nothing but a bloody carpetbagging gentile yankee would do what he did to that place! Talk about "Ugly as Sin!"
17 posted on 07/21/2004 12:45:04 PM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (tired of shucking and jiving)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Oy vey, give a body warning, already! :) Yeeeeeeesh! What a sight! All these stale 60s leftovers that smoked too much cheap weed in cemetary or wherever they got their "religious education".....all of them look just plain.....

Then look at a picture of Mother Angelica. Maybe she's controversial to some, but she looks good, good as in a beautiful soul that shows in physical looks. Chittister looks like someone who could deck a tattooed biker at a cheap roadhouse dive! Sad.
18 posted on 07/21/2004 12:48:46 PM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (tired of shucking and jiving)
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To: Convert from ECUSA
Go to Our Lady's Warriors>Dissent>Authors & Speakers>Women Priests

Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB A supporter of Call to Action who promotes women priests.

19 posted on 07/21/2004 1:33:31 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Gads, look at that picture!

Typical leftist, feminist 'nun'.


20 posted on 07/21/2004 1:46:49 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("In the Kingdom of the Deluded, the Most Outrageous Liar is King".)
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