Arlington Nuns "Dismissed from Religious Life"
Seven Carmelite nuns from the convent in Arlington, Texas - who recently joined the Priestly Society of Pius X - have been dismissed from religious life on paper.
Mother Marie of the Incarnation, prioress of the Carmel of the Most Holy Trinity and president of the Association of Christ the King, made the announcement in a letter to the Diocese of Fort Worth on Monday. The Vatican put Mother Marie in charge of the Arlington convent on paper, but she never set a foot inside.
The bitter feud between the nuns and the Fort Worth Diocese, led by Bishop Michael Olson, has lasted more than a year and even involved civil courts.
Mother Marie of the Incarnation has now written: "Our only wish is for the dismissed members of the Carmel to repent, so that the monastic property can once again be rightly called a monastery, inhabited by Discalced Carmelite nuns, in good canonical standing with the Church of Rome."
The Arlington nuns own a vast and extremely valuable property. Only a few weeks ago, …More
Phone sex…disobedience…owning valuable property…..I’m afraid none of that conforms to any kind of Teresian Carmeliteness. Good riddance
My point is that we are too quick to dismiss others, especially sinners, with "good riddance". Society, and especially secular government, does not believe that a person can change ie. reform or convert by God's grace. Yet this reality of "change by the grace of God" is at the heart of Christian doctrine, belief, and practice. In my opinion, we should be more tolerant of others, especially repentant sinners, and show them mercy as Our Lord did. In fact, "sinners" are the reason He was came among us, and died on the Cross. "The Church is a hospital, and only sinners may enter." Also, "love the sinner, hate the sin."
"…owning valuable property…..I’m afraid none of that conforms to any kind of Teresian Carmeliteness"
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Get rid of your Commie attitude then and you will cease to be afraid.
It is normal for a Carmelite monastery to own valuable property so that they can independently support themselves from its revenues. It is actually a mandatory charism of the Carmelite Order. Should the diocesan bishop own the Carmelite's valuable property? No.
The charism of poverty means that everything should be owned "in common" by each Carmelite community, independent from other Carmelity monasteries,... not that the community should own nothing at all, or that the local bishop should own everything. That would be stupidity...which is why the nuns are fighting the bishop and the modernist Carmelite Order, the true Commies.
Valuable Property and Commies
Ex. Were the Popes wrong in owning the Papal States, valuable property, whose revenues supported the charitable works of the papacy globally? It was the Commies and Freemasons who stripped the papacy of the lands that it had owned for over 1000 years. Francis' Vatican cannot pay its bills today as a direct result of the Commies' theft of his valuable property which was given to the Church so that it could be independent of civil authorities and not subservient to them, and also so that the Church, after paying for the maintenance of the Vatican, etc., could pursue charitable works around the world as needed, and at the discretion of the Holy Father. Freemasonry's goal in stealing the Papal States from the Popes was, in the future, to bankrupt the Catholic Church so as to destroy it. Seems like the Masons and the Commies have finally achieved their goal: bankrupting the Church by depriving it of its legitimate revenues from valuable property...stolen.
Golly, yes, I'm the CEO of a global company...surely you will stop spouting vulgar nonsense?