Unexpected Papal Correction stuns radical nuns

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
4/22/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Archbishop will oversee the reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Radical nuns, watch out! The Vatican has your number. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the largest organization of Catholic nuns in the US, has been singled out for promoting "feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."

This will be coming to an immediate stop.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Saying the group is undermining Catholic teaching on issues such as homosexuality and abortion, the Vatican has assigned an archbishop to oversee its reform. The archbishop will ensure the group conforms to Catholic prayer and ritual.

The Leadership Conference of Women Catholic Religious is based in Maryland and represents about 57,000 women, which is just about 80 percent of all Catholic nuns in the US. The conference provides services to women's religious orders and performs advocacy on a myriad of social issues.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has identified the group as facing a doctrinal crisis on issues of "crucial importance" to the church.

In addition misalignment with the church on issues of homosexuality and abortion, the organization also stands in contrast to the church's teaching on euthanasia, and has provided vocal support in favor of Obama's health care plan which would use government money to fund abortions.

Furthermore, the Vatican report finds the group has been "silent on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States."

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious says that it is "stunned" by the scathing Vatican report, in a statement posted online. The brief statement also asks for prayers as the group prepares a response.

The Vatican has appointed Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle to oversee the reform of the group. The review and reform process could take up to five years.

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Keywords: Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Catholic, Vatican, Holy Office for the Doctrine of the Faith, Inquisition, abortion, life, euthanasia, homosexuality, Obama

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Jacqueline
10 months ago
Oh, dear. I came across this blog by accident. What are you all so afraid of? OK the Sisters are humanitarians but I am sure they are excellent Christians and Catholics, too. Maybe working with the disadvantaged, they have had a different and less sheltered life experience from many of us. Compassion was an outstanding characteristic of Christ but Christ was not very popular with the authorities during his lifetime either.

I suspect that the Editors of Catholic Online will not allow my comments to appear on the blog as there is no real discussion whatsoever of pros and cons of the topic.Just a consensus of fixed opinion.
JeanCatherine
1 year ago
Peter Ramsey

Catholic Online has commented on Islamic terrorism fro sometime against the Catholic Church and there is an article addressing it after your comment or during your comment here on the website I believe.

We have all stood by the like of Asia Bibi and the Protestant Minister in Iran who have been jailed and hope are still alive for their beliefs.

We always comment as best we can for the faith. We also pray for those who tresspass against us and lead us not into temptation.

God Bless Peter.
Peter Ramsey
1 year ago
No comments about 16 Catholics killed by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria but we have over 40 postings here about "radical" nuns!
Barb
1 year ago
Thank you Pappa Benedict. This reform is decades overdue. The smoke of satan has infiltrated Christ's Church. It is not just the nuns, but many priests as well who hold beliefs that are against Church teaching. This is beyond heresy. What these religious hold as truth is immoral and against God's law. They are more than undermining those they come in contact with, they are leading the sheep astray into sinful lifestyles. They are wolves in sheep clothing leading souls to damnation.
I attended a Centering prayer group and was shocked at the material presented for discussion. The speaker was a protestant woman who espoused abortion, homosexuality, priests marrying. It was more a new age round table than a Catholic prayer group. I only went to one session. That was enough. Then I tried a Bible study gtoup led by a nun. Again, I was shocked at the liberal attitudes of this "nun". Reform is much needed as well as prayer for Holy Mother Church that satan can be weeded out.
Judy
1 year ago
JeanCatherine: Thank you very much for responding. It was nice to hear your opinion, and clarified your statement. Prayerful Blessings...
JeanCatherine
1 year ago
Judy

Why Judy I fully agree with the article of course. As for modern I hope I truly am one the feminine genius Holy Father has bestowed on Modern Women today.

After all I agree not on radical feminism but the fact of true feminine genius and that the church is pro-women and supports women in the modern world as it can through the teaching of the Magisterium.

As a modern women I agree that women should have their rights but abortion is out of the question as the true Suffragettes did not support this practice and that is what a true Modern Catholic Women is in simple terms.

I am glad that I have rights in the modern world but as a Catholic I also have allegience to Christ our Lord and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Summed up I was just basically agreeing with the article.
Bill
1 year ago
Joseph I think you hit the nail on the head. What I find very disturbing about this organization and the nuns and ideas it represents is that it treats truth and love as competing alternatives as opposed to complementary principles in the journey to eternal salvation. In the name of love, some of these nuns support the murder of the innocents in and out of the womb and seem to want to play god by sanctioning euthanasia. Neither of these abominations is defensible in the name of love and run directly counter to the bedrock truths of the faith they profess to follow! Moreover, the caricatures they use to portray those (Bishops) and others who choose to follow the truths of the faith are hardly the fruits of love. These nuns have been itching for a fight for a long time as they have repeatedly ignored the authority of the Bishops. Now that the Vatican is involved and has demanded that they reform my guess is that they will not reform but will pursue their own ends much as we saw happen in the Garden of Eden!
Michael
1 year ago
I agree fully with this article..I do think however; that we need to understand the difference between a "nun" and a "sister" amoung the Religious..Most of the problems with conscious and following the teaching of the church involve "sisters"...Sisters live and serve in public and tend to attract those who may be more "vocal" and lean to the left politically...Nuns are normally cloistered and in prayer and service behind the walls of the convent they to whom they make their vows.Nuns tend to hold the true values of the Church and one does not usually hear them speaking in public...
The Holy Father needs to "lay down the law" and make all religious return to the habit and magisterium...of leave the Church...No questions asked....I tell people that being a true Roman Catholic you have to "eat the whole roll of lifesavers"..you may not like the white ones or the green ones but you have to eat them still. The entire package of lifesavers, both the good tasting and the less attractive ones are our peligion and as a practicing Catholic you can't pick and choose...The religiuos ( both male and female) have been given too much latitude since Vatican II...Come back to the teachings of the True Church or find somewhere else to serve.....
Joseph
1 year ago
'Love' - the most abused and exploited word in modern English usage. Love does not mean we forgive everything, accept everything, embrace everything, or overlook everything. Love, by definition, implies concurrent justice and righteousness, obedience to God and God's laws. As Christ said: 'If you love me keep my commandments'. The so-called 'nuns' in the LCWR are nothing of the kind. For 3 decades they have acted as fifth columnist agents for the secular world within the the body of the Church. Their time has finally come. It is not offensive or unchristian to tell them either to keep God's commandments or get out of the Church. It is called being just and righteous in protecting God's Church, his bride on earth, protecting her integrity, honour and virtue. Something the nuns should not have to be told to do in the first place, and the fact that they have had to be severely reprimanded indicates just how far they have moved away from the eternal truths of the Church. If they genuinely love Christ and his Church they will be the first to express their heartfelt mea culpa, embrace a healthy dose of humility, and demonstrate their love for Christ by strenuously seeking to do God's will and renounce their own trendy notions of what they - in their self-righteousness - have for too long arrogantly choosen to interpret as God's will in clear definance of Church teaching and tradition. Love, like Freedom, implies responsibility in complying with and carrying out God's laws. It does not mean we are licensed to do what we want, when we want, how we want and where we want.
Julia
1 year ago
I am so glad to see this. On a rather liberal forum that I frequent the atheists and feminists were making a big boo hoo about this and I just smiled. Their ignorance and arrogance was astonishing, but the insistence of those in religious life to proclaim and act counter to the Church's teachings and standards is the greater abomination. I am 51 and have just converted to Catholicism and have felt a call to a religious life though as someone disabled and older, I am sure that I won't be able to answer that call. I may not be so physically adept at all the rigors of service but I'd do it in a heartbeat however to uphold the standards and practices of the Church and Christ.

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