Louisville tour affirms work of Catholic sisters
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As thunder from an incoming storm rumbled overhead, dozens of people disembarked from a charter bus at the Sister Visitor Center in Portland early Thursday evening and filed past the neatly sorted racks in its clothes closet.
Manager of operations Michele Intravia, a member of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph, Ky., gave the visitors a brief run-through of the group’s work in some of Louisville’s poorest neighborhoods, where requests for food and other assistance keep rising.
The tour was part of an effort to show that Roman Catholic nuns such as Intravia have been providing such services to the needy for more than two centuries.
The Way of the Sisters Legacy Tour 2012 was organized by a group of local Catholics seeking to give a show of confidence to nuns as an umbrella organization of sisters faces a Vatican-directed overhaul.
“There have been a lot of questions about what the nuns and sisters have been doing and questions about what they’re doing currently,” said one of the tour organizers, Beverly Glascock. “We wanted to say this is what they have been doing, this is what they’re continuing to do. It’s important work. It’s very much needed in our society as much today as it was a couple hundred years ago.”
The bus tour took the group to various historic sites involving the nuns, starting at the Cathedral of the Assumption’s Patterson Education Building and traveling to the early sites of other schools, hospitals and orphanages.
“It reaffirms their vision,” said Dolores Delahanty, one of the organizers. “It reaffirms their service to the poor, the hungry, the needy.”
Although it wasn’t the main discussion topic, tour participants were keeping in mind a controversy that has involved the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella organization comprising leaders of numerous female orders. [More]
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Because I love God and my neighbour I serve. I do not need for you to know where or how, or what I do in Christ’s name.
Michael is right. The truth is that the narrow way is the path of love and joy. Our sins come with their own consequences. When we stay on the narrow path, we don’t have to deal with those consequences, and we have more contentment and less suffering the more we conform ourselves to Christ.
To clarify, staying on the narrow path means avoiding sinful behavior and its consequences.
The good works among the poor and marginalized is not the problem with the Vatican. These good works should be lauded and the sister should be credited. The problem comes in when certain groups of sisters refuse to teach the difficult, yet true, teachings of the church on abortion, contraception and gay marriage. To accept and endorse these positions will make these sisters popular, but it will hinder the Way inwhich God intends us to live. Yes! The Narrow Way is difficult, but the Wide Way leads to distruction.
Great distinction, Michael, which brings clarity to the issue. What I have noticed from many posters here is that they confuse issues — their minds truly are not sharp. But yours is — and, like David, you appear to be a man after God’s own heart. Keep up the valiant fight — I’m sure you meet opposition in your personal life for the clear positions you take — but this lost world needs to have the Truth presented to them, as even many religious sisters, as you say, are unwilling to present the Truth. God bless you, Michael.