Now The Vatican Goes After The Contemplatives Nuns - By Father Bruno-Philip Penguine
“For there is no born Turk so cruel to Christian folk as is the false Christian that falleth from the faith – we shall stand in peril, if we persevere in the truth, to be more hardly handled and die a more cruel death by our own countrymen at home than if we were taken hence and carried into Turkey.”
Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, St Thomas More (1535)
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The Apostolic Constitution Vultum Dei quarere (VD) and the Instruction “Cor Orans” (CO) have recently been presented by the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, under and with the authority of the reigning Pontiff.
In addition, on 16th July 2018, the General of the Discalced Carmelites sent a Letter to Carmelite Nuns on the implementation of Cor Orans.
These three documents indicate a fundamental change in the way contemplative nuns are meant to understand their vocation, some having …More