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- Ohmie on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “I think the stupidest part is the underlying assumption that the Holy Spirit is guiding the participants’ emotions. Couldn’t possibly…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “What do Oreo Cookies have to do with synodality? Honestly, if they did server Oreos, we could see participation go…”
- on “Let us run with this thought experiment for a moment.”: “Folk songs? I swear our arrangement for the last few years came straight from Rankin-Bass TV productions, where the Gloria…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Loquitur: …“a snake in the grass!”… —> GHP frantically looking for the missing “Like” button and “Thumbs Up” emoji…… to…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Ouch, dumber indeed Ben. That was painful. This is a Marxist style struggle session not a thing a church founded…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “No doubt their discernment will lead to recommendations for very high minimum wages, rent controls, very high taxes on investment…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Many years ago, on a diocesan youth retreat, a very creepy group discussion facitator (yes, it was that sort of…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1527: “As a further twist on your problem above, Fr. Z, I would put this question: Assuming castling was NOT an…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Wait, I’ve had another think… the question is not clear, but the answer is definitely women bishops. If we can’t…”
- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Too new age-y for me (Typical program to make everyone feel relevant to a process that is garbage)”
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- on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “@ Dan: Agreed. Did Our Lord say in Matthew 28:19 “Go and listen” or “Go and teach”?”
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Category Archives: Magisterium of Nuns
Why aging liberals are so nasty and so frightened
At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, there is an analysis piece by a writer for First Things, Matthew Schmitz. He writes about the angst libs are experiencing, as they cope with the ticking clock: Pope Francis isn’t moving fast … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Commonweal, Hell's Bible, Massimo Faggioli, Matthew Boudway, National Catholic Reporter, New York Times, Peter Steinfels, Phyllis Zagano, Pope Francis, Robert Mickens, The Tablet, Vito Mancuso, women's ordination
35 Comments
35 Comments
They’re baaaack!
I’ve just learned via RNS that the NUNS ON THE BUS are back! Nuns really get around these days. They are also being summoned to Rome for chats. But I digress. Nuns on the bus will ride to political conventions … Read More
Nuns On The Bus III: Another tired sequel of the Magisterium of Nuns
From super-liberal RNS: New ‘Nuns on the Bus’ tour to highlight Pope Francis’ US visit and agenda […] “Obviously, Pope Francis’ message is exactly what we’ve been doing for 43 years,” Campbell said. “Having that affirmation is hugely supportive.” But, she … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged Nuns On The Bus, Sr. Simone Campbell
19 Comments
19 Comments
Wherein Fr. Z expects rejection… again… yet hope springs eternal
As July zooms by, and August swiftly comes, we all recall I’m sure that quote of Emerson, “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” Thus, my mind turns to the upcoming annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, LCWR. … Read More
Of the LCWR and the end of the CDF “crackdown”
At the conclusion of the CDF investigation of the LCWR, it is interesting to watch the conga line dance threading its delirious way through the liberal catholic MSM led by Fishwrap‘s Tom Fox, AP‘s (not catholic, but liberal) Nicole Winfield and Rachel Zoll, Commonweal‘s … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged CDF, LCWR, liberals, women religion
48 Comments
48 Comments
Nuns on the Bus: check out their ride!
I was recently sent a link to a page about the Nuns on the Bus tour taking place. This is effort run by Sr. Simone Campbell of the lobby group NETWORK to sign up as many people who will vote … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged Democrats, NETWORK, Nuns On The Bus, Sr. Simone Campbell
19 Comments
19 Comments
Multiple sins of the NETWORK nuns exposed
Even though the culture wars are over and a new morning has dawned, I want you all to click HERE and read carefully a piece at the National Catholic Register by Anne Carey about the “Nuns on the Bus”. The … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, The Drill, Women Religious
Tagged LCWR, NETWORK, Sr. Simone, VP Biden
15 Comments
15 Comments
“to become highly educated, travel the world … without being beholden to a husband or children”
Some of you alert readers have sent me links to an article in TIME about the Vatican and the LCWR nuns. Vatican bad, nuns good. For example, they think this one is pretty spiffy: For more than four decades Sister … Read More
Ann Carey, expert on women religious, dissects LCWR keynote – “convoluted, confused, and unfounded”
Ann Carey, author of the thoughtful and balanced Sisters in Crisis Revisited: From Unraveling to Reform and Renewal, masterfully dissected the astonishingly myopic and self-centered speech given at the recent LCWR meeting by Sr. Nancy Shreck. I urge you to … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Puir Slow-Witted Gowk, Women Religious, You must be joking!
Tagged Ann Carey, LCWR, women religious
31 Comments
31 Comments
LCWR wrap up
“But Father! But Father!”, people have been asking me by email, “Why haven’t you been covering the antics of the LCWR? Did you not see that they are defying the bishops? The Vatican?” Look, they are still meeting to figure … Read More
Ohmie on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “I think the stupidest part is the underlying assumption that the Holy Spirit is guiding the participants’ emotions. Couldn’t possibly…”
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