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Tag Archives: magisterium of nuns
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 … Continue reading
More nuns called to Rome! Sisters of Mercy
More hand-wringing at Fishwrap (aka National Sodomitic Reporter) over another summons of US nuns to Rome for a chat. They can join the Loretto Sisters, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the line is getting longer. Sisters of Mercy also being … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Coming Storm – Argentina: topless pro-abort feminists assault men, try to burn Cathedral
UPDATE 15 Oct: I received this from a trustworthy priest: I saw your post on the Mar del Plata cathedral assault. Quite frightening demonstration and disappointing response from the rector. However, the whole event may be more complicated than it … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Sr. Jeannine Gramick asked Pres. Obama to expand abortion throughout the world
Sr. Jeannine Gramick has signed a letter to Pres. Obama asking that abortion be expanded throughout the world. PDF of the letter HERE. Guardian story HERE. Sr. Gramick is, as you may recall, one of those immortalized in my post NUNS … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged LCWR, magisterium of nuns, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, zitelle
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged Anne Carey, LCRW, magisterium of nuns, NCAN, Nuns Gone Wild, women religious
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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 … Continue reading
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
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How tiny liberal loon crank groups provide cover and distraction for larger, more dangerous initiatives.
In Religion Dispatches which is associated with USC, Patricia Miller opines. Who is Patricia Miller? She is described on the page: Patricia Miller is the author of Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church. She has written … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
LCWR Press Release
The LCWR breaks silence for a post-assembly press release. They rejected me, but I’ll share this anyway. My emphases and comments: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leadership Conference of Women Religious Assembly Explores the Needs of the Global Community [Orlando, FL] At the … Continue reading
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Tagged LCWR, magisterium of nuns
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I’ve been thinking about the LCWR meeting, which – sadly – is in its final hours.
I’ve been thinking about the LCWR meeting, which – sadly – is in its final hours. (Have I mentioned that they rejected me?) What greater sign that the CDF take-over is really working, and that it is game over for … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged Archbp. Viganò, LCWR, magisterium of nuns
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Nuns in Arms! Sr. Fiedler runs down Archbp. Sartain as the LCWR Games begin.
The inimitable Sr. Maureen Fiedler has taken it upon her broad shoulder to be spokesone for the LCWR. We know that a past mentor of the LCWR is annoyed that Archbp. Sartain (appointed by the CDF to keep his eyes … Continue reading
Sister is upset that Archbp. Sartain will attend the LCWR meeting
The nuns aren’t happy. That is to say the LCWR nuns aren’t happy. All the traditional sisters are happy. It seems that the LCWR’s Vatican Overlord is going to attend the whole of the LCWR meeting at the swanky Royale … Continue reading
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Tagged Archbp. Sartain, CDF, LCWR, magisterium of nuns, Sr. Theresa Kane
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Sr. Kane (of “NUNS GONE WILD” fame) on Pope Francis’ feelings. Wherein Fr. Z rants and has some fun.
First, take a look HERE. This is where the Holy See posted the transcript of Pope Francis’ chat with newsies on the flight back to Rome from Rio. From what I can tell, it is the whole thing and in … Continue reading
Catholic Health Ass. bends over for Pres. Obama’s HHS “compromise”
From Seattle Times. Here is how the secular press views the bone-head BS stupid move of the Catholic Health Ass. When you hear the words Catholic Health Association you should start thinking: CANON 216 And now the news: Catholic hospitals accept … Continue reading
How the LCWR, Magisterium of Nuns, get around the Church’s teaching and hierarchy
I missed this the other day. On review, it is important enough to post about. Over at Fishwrap, the National Schismatic Reporter, there is an interview with the head of the LCWR, Sr. Florence Deacon, from 7 May, while she … Continue reading
National Schismatic Reporter starts to turn on the Pope – Francis and the LCWR
Here is something that I never thought I would write. Fr. Z kudos to Jamie Manson of the National Schismatic Reporter. One of Fishwrap‘s headliners, a darling of LCWR, the openly-lesbian, Margaret Farley-mentored Jamie Manson has sobered up about Pope … Continue reading
“feeeelings… wo wo wo feeeeeeeelings….”
It took them a few hours to get organized, but Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter), in its capacity of LCWR spin surrogate, has started to twist Pope Francis’s address to the UISG (HERE) into something that it is not. Here … Continue reading
