The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening?
Photo ~ Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle and Sister Janet Mock, executive director of LCWR The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening? The common theme in most media reports about the …More
Photo ~ Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle and Sister Janet Mock, executive director of LCWR
The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening?
The common theme in most media reports about the CDF initiative, as these headlines suggest, is that out-of-touch men in the Vatican are unfairly criticizing the most faithful and hard-working members of the Church—the sisters. So, is this really the case? Hardly.
On page one of the eight-page CDF document, the accomplishments of women religious are cited and praised: “The Holy See acknowledges with gratitude the great contribution of women Religious to the Church in the United States … .”
However, the document goes on to point out that vowed religious are much more than social workers: they are consecrated persons who have a special place in the Church that must be marked by a strong faith and allegiance to Church authority. The LCWR, it continued, has shown a “diminution of the fundamental Christological center and focus of religious …More
The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening?
The common theme in most media reports about the CDF initiative, as these headlines suggest, is that out-of-touch men in the Vatican are unfairly criticizing the most faithful and hard-working members of the Church—the sisters. So, is this really the case? Hardly.
On page one of the eight-page CDF document, the accomplishments of women religious are cited and praised: “The Holy See acknowledges with gratitude the great contribution of women Religious to the Church in the United States … .”
However, the document goes on to point out that vowed religious are much more than social workers: they are consecrated persons who have a special place in the Church that must be marked by a strong faith and allegiance to Church authority. The LCWR, it continued, has shown a “diminution of the fundamental Christological center and focus of religious …More
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Please good sisters bring back the habits, reunite with the Holy Father, and ditch the pantsuits. 
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The notion that the true mission of the Church is social work become prevalent among liberal Catholics in the ‘60s. Many of the religious and secular priests left the Church and married, thinking of social work as a more virtuous line of work than “dispensing” the Sacraments. Many who remained decided to reshape the Church to fit their new consciousness.
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The notion that the true mission of the Church is social work become prevalent among liberal Catholics in the ‘60s. Many of the religious and secular priests left the Church and married, thinking of social work as a more virtuous line of work than “dispensing” the Sacraments. Many who remained decided to reshape the Church to fit their new consciousness.
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The notion that the true mission of the Church is social work become prevalent among liberal Catholics in the ‘60s. Many of the religious and secular priests left the Church and married, thinking of social work as a more virtuous line of work than “dispensing” the Sacraments. Many who remained decided to reshape the Church to fit their new consciousness.
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