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- adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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Tag Archives: women religious
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 continues to deflect inquiries about sexual abuse by nuns
The LCWR meeting is underway in Nashville! And I am not there, because they rejected me after I applied for credentials. Where’s the transparency? The Fishwrap is even concerned about their stonewalling. HERE But wait! There’s more! Also in Fishwrap (aka … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sexual abuse of children, SNAP, women religious
8 Comments
8 Comments
Number of American Nuns plunging
I saw this at the Pew Research Center: U.S. nuns face shrinking numbers and tensions with the Vatican The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which includes representation from more than 80% of American nuns, [The key is “from”. The … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The Drill, The future and our choices, Women Religious
Tagged CARA, LCWR, Pew Research, women religious
28 Comments
28 Comments
LCWR, their August assembly: Where’s the “prophecy”?
As you know, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is going to have their annual confab in August. This year they are meeting in Nashville. As you will remember, last year I applied for press credentials, only to be coldly … Read More
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
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
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5 Comments
Francis: “Can you imagine a Church without nuns?” Fr. Z gives his view.
Pope Francis has made it clear that he considers dimly women religious who are not fruitful. He has admonished nuns not to be “zitelle… spinsters, old maids, biddies”. To be called “una zitella” isn’t a compliment in Italian. “But Father! … Read More
Posted in Francis, Women Religious
Tagged Nuns Gone Wild, Pope Francis, Sr. Donna Quinn, women religious, zitelle
38 Comments
38 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
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
New book about women religious!
If you want to understanding something about how many of the women religious in these USA have gone completely off their rockers, here is the book to get. I have the first book, from 1997. Now there is an updated, … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Campus Telephone Pole, The Drill, Women Religious
Tagged Anne Carey, LCWR, women religious
7 Comments
7 Comments
Long lifetimes of faith and prayer
The other day I saw in the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Madison that a religious sister was celebrating her 8oth anniversary of profession! That’s impressive. This also caught my eye today ‘Longest-serving’ cloistered nun dies in Spain The … Read More
Pope Francis’ outstanding address to international leaders of women religious
Today Pope Francis met with some 800 leaders of women’s religious institutes from around the world in an organization called the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). Think of an international version of the LCWR. This meeting of women religious … Read More
Why do liberals try to make religious life so … small?
Since there is a great deal of liberal hooting at the latest women religious, LCWR, Bus-Nun type goat rodeo, let’s turn the clock back a bit and look at something at Religion and Politics about the Nashville Dominicans. The article is … Read More
Recent LCWR statements – context for the Holy See’s smackdown
Today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith smacked down, hard, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. This is, as you may remember, the group of leaders of communities of women religious (not all the religious themselves, but the … Read More
Posted in Francis, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, Women Religious
Tagged CDF, LCWR, Pope Francis, women religious
35 Comments
35 Comments
QUAERITUR: Orders of women religious who accept later vocations
From a reader: Father, do your wonderful readers have suggestions about women’s religious orders that cater to late vocations (late 30’s)? Someone in our family is discerning. I don’t, but I hope some of the readers here will. The question … Read More
“Band of Sisters” documentary about liberal women religious premiers
We start a new work week with some old fashioned dissent. And I mean old. Picture if you will the paradox of a visible but invisible group of women religious dissenters. Even as they stay in the public eye, because … Read More
ZUHLIO RETURNS: “Where Have All The Sisters Gone”?
The Official Parodohymnodist of Fr. Z’s Blog has inspired – I don’t know how he does it – has inspired – or even why he does it – has inspired to emerge from retirement ZUHLIO! Yes, after the triumphant reemergence … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z gives Sr. Simone Campbell a pass on something really important
If communities of women religious have habits, then the women ought to wear them. Keep in mind that the habits of some groups were/are rooted in the era of their founding. Keep in mind that some communities don’t have habits … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Lighter fare, Women Religious
Tagged habits, Sr. Simone Campbell, women religious
33 Comments
33 Comments
QUAERIT… well… Cri de Coeur: Convent closing for lack of vocations
From a reader: I need to thank you for encouraging us all to attend the EF of the mass. Although there is no EF mass within a few hours drive of where I live (so sad, I know) I have … Read More
Posted in Cri de Coeur, The future and our choices
Tagged convent, Cri de Coeur, vocations, women religious
39 Comments
39 Comments
adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
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