Tag Archives: LCWR

March For Life VIDEO! Obama for the … Unborn?!?

Posted on 11 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Some people are getting it.  Liberals, even – to their eternal shame liberal catholics – are hijacking pro-life language as a way of promoting strict gun-control as if it were a pro-life issue.  What they are really trying to do is silence … Continue reading →

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The Ghost of Lib-Mass Yet To Come

Posted on 30 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Someone sent me a link to an article in Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times) about “experimental worship” and moving beyond institutional church… sort of like what the National catholic Reporter praises.
There is some pretty crazy stuff in the … Continue reading →

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National Catholic Reporter teams up with Ford Foundation backed entity to hide the truth about the Holy See’s ‘Doctrinal Assesment’ of the LCWR

Posted on 27 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Every year around Christmas and Easter, the usual hyenas emerge from the brush to worry at the Church’s heels.  This year, as a little gift to the Christ Child, the National Catholic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) has teamed up with an … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Examination of conscience and “Speaking against priests or consecrated religious”

Posted on 16 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Hello Father! An examination of conscience asks, “Have I spoken against a priest, or against anyone consecrated to God? (This is a sacrilege).” I am not sure what constitutes “speaking against”, but I have made fun of the … Continue reading →

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Benedict XVI to change mind on women’s ordination? Have stranger things ever happened?

Posted on 10 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I picked this up from Eye Of The Tiber. I didn’t hear about this epoch-changing story in the MSM or the Catholic blogosphere, did you?
Hmmmm….  perhaps there is a conspiracy.
Former LCWR President’s Dynamic Speech May Change Pope’s Mind On Female … Continue reading →

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Prefect of CDF about SSPX and LCWR

Posted on 5 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The National Catholic Register (not the National catholic Reporter, aka Fishwrap) has an interview with the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbp. Gerhard Müller.   Part 1 HERE and part 2 HERE. The interview … Continue reading →

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Catholic League on NYT editorial about nuns… dissident nuns, of course

Posted on 18 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Catholic League:
New York Times Finds Good Nuns
September 18, 2012
Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today’s New York Times:
The editorial, “Speaking the Truth to the Vatican,” sounds so macho, especially coming from the unmanly New York Times. This … Continue reading →

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LCWR Nuns are “the real thing”

Posted on 11 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Tom Fox of the Fishwrap was one the honored invited speakers at the recent meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR – a subsidiary of the Magisterium of Nuns).   He has a brief but gushy post at … Continue reading →

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Card. Burke on the LCWR’s view of religious life

Posted on 9 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I wrote about how screwed up Sr. Joan Chittister’s view of religious life is HERE.
Review that and then listen to this:

Same wave length, no?

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Check out one blog’s vivisection of Fr. James Martin’s (SJ) claims about LCWR’s vocations v CMSWR’s vocations.

Posted on 9 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at Amerika, our old friend, Fr. James Martin, SJ, wrote a piece in which he manipulated statistics so that it appeared that LCWR orders of nuns were getting as many vocations as the CMSWR nuns (the more traditional groups). That … Continue reading →

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