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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- hvratstpls2 on PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 54: Low Sunday – “scandal, hypocrisy, bland liturgies, false teaching, broken families, sin and sinners everywhere.”: “Fr. Z – Thank you for the “chirping” and spiritual encouragement to leave the nest and soar on as on…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 17: Easter Friday: “Isn’t it checkmate in one move? Qd8#. I don’t see any moves that remove the black King from checkmate.”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “The Great Roman once again reading Er Belli, another gem! Thank you for these exquisite 46 seconds.”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “Yeah, but they could have done something to jazz up the truck. Black streamers, even. Some bunting along the sides…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 19: Low Sunday – with a grand digression: “I loved that Inspector Morse series! The Brits know how to make really excellent detective stories. Same for Endeavor, etc.…”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “I think it was the usual “Popemobile” but with stuff removed. The license was SCV 1.”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “I was surprised to see this – a wooden box stuck in the back of a white pickup. For the…”
- on Pray for a new Pope to who will be… better than we deserve! : “Cardinal Burke has a Novena prayer for the conclave which may be found at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine…”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “Satire, Socratic irony, rhetorical musings — written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon; though not Catholic, a contemporary of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.…”
- on ROME 25/4– Day 17: Easter Friday: “yeaeeaaah, that is NOT a Fiorentina. The only proper one I’ve ever eaten was in … well … Florence, as…”
- on Closing Francis’ coffin – What did they put in there with him?: “I was going to write what Maelwys’ wrote. The self-referential line made me laugh out loud when I read it.…”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: “I didn’t catch any of the jokes, but I loved the Great Roman’s voice! I could hear the drumroll.”
- on Sonnet about the papal funeral procession: ““A pope dies, ya’ make another.” Simple man, simple life, no better way to go to the grave than on…”
- on Pray for a new Pope to who will be… better than we deserve! : “donato2 – you took the words out of my mouth. I was just thinking: how quiet and peaceful it all…”
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Category Archives: Magisterium of Nuns
CDF and LCWR: A “Dialogue” by Prof. Esolen. Fun and sad.
At The Catholic Thing, Anthony Esolen has a great dialogue, I use the word a little loosely, which typifies much of what the LCWR is doing in the face of the CDF’s guidance. Let’s have a look at a little … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Women Religious
Tagged Anthony Esolen, CDF, dante, Divine Comedy, LCWR
13 Comments
13 Comments
Back to the Future: LCWR nuns and “Conscious Evolution” and gnosticism
Card. Müller, when addressing the LCWR nuns, spoke about problems with their Faith. He was not being political. He was not picking on them as “women”. Card. Müller was effectively asking them: Do you want to be Catholic? What the nuns … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged Card. Müller, CDF, conscious evolution, gnosticism, LCWR
51 Comments
51 Comments
LCWR’s award this year is an insult to the US Bishops
The LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious) are feeling a little frisky. I suspect they think that, even though they are being watched by the CDF for their totally weird spiritual notions, they are invulnerable in the age of … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged LCWR, magisterium of nuns, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, zitelle
13 Comments
13 Comments
LCWR Spirituality Generator
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious annual assembly will take place later in the summer. I will, of course, apply again for credentials to attend. But I am really hoping to be invited as a speaker. To that end, … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged LCWR, new age, nuns, women religious
36 Comments
36 Comments
How the great have fallen.
A priest friend in my native place forwarded to me an email from the School Sisters of Notre Dame with their Easter greetings. Get this: Easter Blessing . . . Let us thank the Earth that offers ground for … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious, You must be joking!
Tagged LCWR, School Sisters of Notre Dame
66 Comments
66 Comments
Rush Limbaugh on the ending of the Left’s honeymoon with Pope Francis
I have been harping on this for a while: the Left will turn on Francis one day. From Rush Limbaugh’s stack of stuff. He was on the air yesterday. Here is the transcript. My legendary emphases and comments. End of Left’s Honeymoon … Read More
Nuns Gone Mad… Nuns Gone Wild… take your pick
I have written now a couple times about the whacky fringe group of nuns, NCAN, led by the pro-abortion Sinsinawa Dominican Sr. Donna Quinn. HERE and HERE Now I see at the National Catholic Register that Anne Carey, whose book I … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged Anne Carey, LCRW, magisterium of nuns, NCAN, Nuns Gone Wild, women religious
5 Comments
5 Comments
Of the Viet Cong and Radical Feminist Nuns
I’ll bet that some of you younger readers don’t know who the Viet Cong were and what they did. They started as a tiny groups or cadres of committed Communists, insurgents, in the south of Vietnam, after the end of … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Pò sì jiù, Religious Liberty, The Drill, Women Religious
Tagged HHS mandate, Ho Chi Minh Trail, LCWR, magisterium of nuns, MSNBC, National Coalition of American Nuns, NCAN, Obama Administration, Patricia Miller, Sinsinawa Dominicans, Sr. Donna Quinn, Viet Cong
20 Comments
20 Comments
BREAKING! SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor BLOCKS Pres. Obama’s HHS Mandate
Hmmm…. Maybe I should name Justice Sonia Sotomayor Fr. Z’s Person of the Year. From Politico: Justice [Sotomayor] delays health law’s birth control mandate Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate By: Associated Press December 31, 2013 10:34 PM EST … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Help the Nuns on the Bus!
Over at Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) there is a project to help the Nuns on the Bus rename their hagiographical movie/documentary! I can’t think of a better project for readers here. After all, we have done so little to … Read More
Another evil attack on the Church and religious freedom in these USA
One can understand that a person might be slightly deranged because of sorrow and grief, but this is an evil act. This is the sort of thing that will occur more and more often. Michigan woman sues U.S. Catholic bishops … Read More
Of catacomb paintings, wymynprysts, and rocks on Mars
My email box is under siege by people who want me to comment on the recently restored ancient Roman fresco that feminists and members of COW… no… the Women’s Ordination Conference… that’s WOC… claim as evidence for the ordination of … Read More
Fishwrap missed the memo about Sr. Margaret
It seems that the staff of the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) didn’t get the memo. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in March 2012, issued a “Notification” (i.e., a really serious warning, an authoritative and official judgment from … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious, You must be joking!
Tagged CDF, heretic, Notification, Sr. Margaret Farley
18 Comments
18 Comments
3000 religious leave religious life each year. Why? Some reasons.
I saw this at CWN: Curial official: over 3,000 religious leave consecrated life each year [Makes you wonder how many enter religious life. I’ll bet not 3k!] The secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of … Read More
Pope Francis disappoints feminists, LCWR once again
His Holiness Pope Francis has again disappointed the proponents of female machismo everywhere. At News.va read about his address to the Women’s Section of the Pontifical Council for the Laity on the 25th anniversary of Blessed Pope John Paul II’s … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns
Tagged feminists, LCWR, Mulieris dignitatem, Pope Francis
10 Comments
10 Comments
A study of the Sinsinawa Dominicans (hint: LCWR). Read and weep.
One of the stranger groups of women religious who belong to the LCWR crowd are the Sinsinawa Domincans, whose motherhouse is in southern Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Madison. You might review my post NUNS GONE WILD for a glimpse … Read More
Sr. Margaret Farley endores the same things that got the Australian priest excommunicated
Here is your Sr. Margaret Farley update! Yes, she managed to get back into the news. Go to the site of the Cardinal Newman Society, whose feed I am delighted to have on my side bar. Check it out. And … Read More
Sr. Maureen Fiedler may have some anger issues
I have mentioned a couple times that liberals and (this is just a subgroup) feminists (meaning LCWR types) will eventually turn on Pope Francis. HERE and HERE You may recall that on 3 April, last, I wrote: “Feminists and proponents … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Francis, Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged feminsist, Fishwrap, LCWR, NCR, Pope Francis, Sr. Maureen Fiedler, women's ordination
27 Comments
27 Comments
Next years’s LCWR Assembly Speaker chosen already?
A while back I opined (HERE) about the LCWR assembly speakers: How do we explain the antics of the LCWR nuns? I have the impression that – and mothers can correct me about the right age for this sort of … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged LCWR, Mordor, satire, Sauron
23 Comments
23 Comments
hvratstpls2 on PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 54: Low Sunday – “scandal, hypocrisy, bland liturgies, false teaching, broken families, sin and sinners everywhere.”: “Fr. Z – Thank you for the “chirping” and spiritual encouragement to leave the nest and soar on as on…”
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