We have discussed before on this Blog the impact of feminism amongst nuns ....
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The last time we did so the post included the famous, or is that infamous, quote from Sister Mary Mackay, who said
"The culture encourages everyone to be very tolerant and open-minded," she said. "To imagine that a dictum sent by somebody we don't know, who lives very far away would take hold in this culture, to imagine that, is really a stretch."
Yes, a Catholic nun actually said about the Pope ... 'somebody we don't know, who lives very far away' .... even I suspect that statements of independence like that may be just a little bit too much of a stretch in the tolerance of 'Papal Authority'?
The Holy See's orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said this week that the book, posed "grave harm" to the faithful. As I suggested earlier, it confirmed that her ideas on masturbation, homosexual acts, homosexual unions and remarriage
were in "direct contradiction" with Catholic teaching, and that it revealed a "defective understanding of the objective nature of natural moral law," and were "in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality".
Just for good measure they added that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered," and "contrary to the natural law". So that's that then, none of that Church of England hand wringing, 'Sin' is 'Sin' under the Catholic Church.
But this is 2012, and this is the rebellious 'Leadership Conference of Women Religious,' whose 1,500 members, represent some 80% of the 57,000 American nuns, so my bet is that this isn't the end of the matter, or the last time the Vatican will have to try and crack down on the Catholic ladies of North America.
"The culture encourages everyone to be very tolerant and open-minded," she said. "To imagine that a dictum sent by somebody we don't know, who lives very far away would take hold in this culture, to imagine that, is really a stretch."
Yes, a Catholic nun actually said about the Pope ... 'somebody we don't know, who lives very far away' .... even I suspect that statements of independence like that may be just a little bit too much of a stretch in the tolerance of 'Papal Authority'?
Well, it seems that this is a subject matter that seems to have real
legs, and seems destined to run and run because this last week, the
Vatican was forced to rebuke a
book written by a US nun and theologian on sexual ethics. Oops, we can
already feel the whiff of heresy on either homosexuality or
contraception coming, but this being the Catholic Church, the book 'Just Love', by Sister Margaret Farley, was actually written in 2005, and its taken seven years for the 'empire' to strike back.
Just for good measure they added that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered," and "contrary to the natural law". So that's that then, none of that Church of England hand wringing, 'Sin' is 'Sin' under the Catholic Church.
But this is 2012, and this is the rebellious 'Leadership Conference of Women Religious,' whose 1,500 members, represent some 80% of the 57,000 American nuns, so my bet is that this isn't the end of the matter, or the last time the Vatican will have to try and crack down on the Catholic ladies of North America.
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