Protesters in St. Louis support U.S. nuns rebuked by Vatican
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More than 300 supporters of a group of U.S. Catholic nuns accused by the Vatican of straying from church doctrine held a vigil on Thursday evening near the St. Louis Arch, across the street from the site of a massive meeting of the group.
Their message: Don’t mess with the nuns.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is conducting its first national assembly since Catholic Church leaders accused the group of focusing too much on social justice issues like poverty and not enough opposing abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia. About 900 nuns are attending the four-day assembly.
At the vigil in front of the 178-year-old Basilica of St. Louis, men and women held signs saying “Thank you sisters” and “Nunsense not nonsense” as passing cars honked in support. Many attendees wore light blue, a color associated with the Virgin Mary.
“I think the Vatican chose the wrong group of people this time,” said attendee Marg Beckmann, a 78-year-old Catholic from Illinois.
Another attendee, Sharon Tebbe, 69, of the St. Louis area, said she believed women should be able to be priests.
“I support the nuns and their rights to express themselves,” Tebbe said. “I appreciate all they do to educate our children, to care for our sick and to help our poor.”
The Vatican Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith has rebuked the LCWR for remaining quiet as some nuns publicly challenged bishops on matters of church doctrine, including ordination of women, which is prohibited. The assessment also complained of “radical feminist themes” in some LCWR programs.
The Vatican has put the organization under the effective control of three U.S. bishops. The decision has led to protests across the country in support of the nuns.
The organization represents 80 percent of the 57,000 Roman Catholic nuns in the United States.
In between speakers and prayer services at the assembly, the nuns were meeting in private sessions to talk about how they should respond to the Vatican assessment. LCWR members gave no sense Thursday of what that response will be, saying they preferred to wait until the “discernment” process is complete.
LCWR President Pat Farrell will give a press conference Friday afternoon, but it is possible that no decision will be reached by the end of the assembly.
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Bishop Blair in Toledo has a rapidly decreasing following. He should have handled this situation vastly different.
Yes — he should have rebuked these errant sisters even more strongly.
Here is a link to a 2.5 minute clip from EWTN’s World Over interview of Cardinal Burke about the LCWR August 09, 2012:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/08/card-burke-on-the-lcwrs-view-of-religious-life/
Religious life has evolved with the understanding gained from psychology, sociology, and theology among other studies of human behavior. Women are no longer seen as people who can’t vote, and are completely subservient to men. Like the Virginia slims commercial said, you’ve come a long way baby.
Cardinal Burke and his cronies have a new breed of Religious ti live with and minister with. good got the Sisters
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Jimmy, Recent church documents, and speeches do not refer to these Sisters as Heritics,
You are exhibiting a little silly tirade evey time you refer them as such. Take your little catechism and your little soap box and stop your silliness. Learn some mature pastoral sensitivity.
LCWR, if you read this, understand this: you have zero support from faithful Catholics. In fact, by definition, anyone who supports you does not support the Church, because you have left the Church. “A man cannot serve two masters,” as Jesus told us — either he will stand with these errant, heretical fake sisters, or he will stand with the Truth and the Church.
There can be no reconcilation between these heretics and the Church, unless the heretics repent and ask for forgiveness and subject themselves to the Magisterium.
not true they have total support, from the truly faithful
Michael, I am one of the faithful who throw my full support to the nuns. They have taught me how to read and write and do Math and the teach me by what they say and do to be a Disciple.
thankyou
Need I say more? I rest my case.
Faithful to what? These sisters bear no resemblance to the saintly sisters I remember from gradeschool. Yes, those sisters of my past deserve our full support. I’m sure there are some today who are just as saintly, such as Mother Theresa; however several I have met appear to be more like lost souls wondering in the wilderness. Rather than helping the poor, one was promoting “green energy” and lamented the Marxist Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, had resigned. She thought we were all going to die from global warming. Another was campaigning against mountaintop coal mining. Instead of being the hands and feet of Christ on earth helping the poor, the sisters have become political activists, sometimes supporting cause contrary to the teachings of the Church. I am praying for these lost sheep to find The Good Shephard.