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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1179: One two, buckle my shoe…: “Mate in… 6? White to move. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “samwise: Your questions are amusing. Think about what the book is entitled. Then think about what you asked.”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “Isn’t Dr K a philosopher by training? isn’t this a bit outside his scope? i.e. I consult Dr Robert Sokolowski…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “1. R-g6 If . . . . . . , B×g6+ 2. N×g6# If . . . . . .…”
- on 10th birthday of the fantastic TLM book “Treasure and Tradition”!: “An interesting story in the Detroit Free Press about the Traditional community at St Joseph Shrine.”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “I love, love, love Dr K’s books! Received this one a few weeks ago, Fr Z. Currently finishing They Have…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “Thank you for the St. Edmund details! It is disappointing that Dr. Parker has not posted anything at her blog,…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “Rg6, … …, Bxg6 NxB6# …, B any other move Nf7# …, Rh6 Rxh6# …, Ne8(or Ne6 orNf5) Rg8# It…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “The crooked Brooklyn priest sounds familiar. When the funds are getting misused , it’s usually accompanied by a general laxity.…”
- on Martin Scorsese presents The Saints: my 1st impression: “Thanks for taking the chance and saving me a few bucks. I was beginning to fall for the endless prompts…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “I am absolutely *thrilled* to know His Holiness will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati next year!!!…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “Just ordered from your link, Father.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “1. Rg6 forcing BxR+ 2. NxR#”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1178: Maiestatis ac ditioni vim tuetur et fidem conciliat: “They are revving up for Tata Steel in Wijk aan Zee, 17 Jan – 2 Feb 2025. Some big names,…”
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Tag Archives: LCWR
LCWR and CMSWR: compare and contrast
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is going to hold a virtual “assembly” this year, rather than gather physically. Understandable. Indeed, virtually all of them are vulnerable to the worst results of COVID, given their average age. The LCWR … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Women Religious
Tagged CMSWR, LCWR, women religious
14 Comments
14 Comments
“If only women were in leadership positions…”
Sometimes you hear the facile repeat: “If only women were in leadership positions, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen!” Is that so? Here’s a case to consider… At Crux: Church says nuns embezzled from school to cover Vegas trips LOS … Read More
The dying out of women religious, and the crisis of religious, priestly vocations. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
If anyone in the English speaking world knows what the status quaestionis is concerning American women religious it’s Ann Carey. She has written insightful books about, especially, why some orders are imploding from their own suicide pact with modernity. See … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, PRAYER REQUEST, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Women Religious
Tagged Ann Carey, LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, nuns, Nuns Gone Wild, Sr. Donna Quinn, women religious
25 Comments
25 Comments
LCWR UPDATE: Fidget Spinner, Mickey Mouse, and interesting gestures
Update from the annual meeting of the LCWR: Not photoshopped: What do you want to bet that some of these same gals back in March 2016, during the political campaign, accused Trump supporters of being Nazis when they raised their … Read More
LCWR Assembly BEGINS! “Shifting from I to WE”
The annual conflab of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) starts today at a luxury location in Orlando. I am still downcast about how they rejected my request for press credentials. It was so traumatic. I still choke up. … Read More
Women religious: compare and contrast
Something at the SSPX website caught my eye. Here is a photo from a story of the profession of vows of some sisters associated with the SSPX: “Two American Postulants Join the Consoling Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Italy” … Read More
An imaginary dialogue of US nuns and Vatican officials
As the number of leaders of groups of US women religious being summoned to Rome has been growing, an expert on the status quaesitionis of the same US groups, Ann Carey, offers some insights in the form of a dialogue. You all … Read More
A Litany to Sr. Joan Chittister (… no… really!)
You’ve seen the recent stories about leaders of US women religious being summoned to Rome for to explain the situation. On the heals of another such story today (HERE) comes this, which I spotted at Church Militant. Apparently the US … Read More
LCWR Great Swirly Meeting concludes. Fr. Z looks back at a look foward!
In a piece from Fishwrap, aka National Sodomitic Reporter, about the closing the LCWR annual confab in view of the Great Swirly, we find this: If critics thought the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s doctrinal Massessment and mandated … Read More
Update on the LCWR Assembly of the Great Swirly
We need an update on the Assembly of the Great Swirly, the LCWR annual confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston. They had a speech by one Fr. Stephen Bevans, SVD. No, he’s a priest. He couldn’t be bothered to … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Women Religious, You must be joking!
Tagged LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious
35 Comments
35 Comments
LCWR Assembly Update: Pondering the Great Swirly
The reporter from the Fishwrap has produced a photo from last nights doings. I should share this. Standing above the Great Swirly, this is Sr. Lourdes Leal, a Sister of Divine Providence and chair of LCWR Region 12. Just like the Bishops … Read More
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
A breakthrough!
I think I am finally beginning to understand the LCWR and the Fishwrap. I want you to understand them too. Here’s a helpful video.
Nota bene: Apostolic Visitation of US sisters and CDF scrutiny of LCWR are NOT the same
There is some speculation about what may be said on 16 December in Rome about the Apostolic Visitation that was conducted of communities of women religious in these USA by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of … Read More
Posted in The Drill, Women Religious
Tagged Apostolic Visitation, CDF, LCWR, Nuns On The Bus, women religious
6 Comments
6 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
CRITICAL UPDATE!! LCWR Empowerment Moment
Over at Sancte Pater I found what must have been the next frame, or photo, shot after the one I posted HERE. You might remember the photo. The new prez, or co-mentor, or whatever she is called, between two women … Read More
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
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1179: One two, buckle my shoe…: “Mate in… 6? White to move. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be…”
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