In what should come as no surprise, a community of Benedictine nuns, well along the ‘path to completion’, reject the issues raised by Harrison Butker in his commencement address
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Wouldn’t you know, it is the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, co-founders of Benedictine …
These "Sisters" should try discerning and promoting Catholic Truth instead of seeing how many PC buzzwords they cram into their bootlicking apology to those who hate everything Catholicism stands for
There was NOTHING controversial or heretical about this speech. Anyone who thinks there is had better get a life. The only ones who will save the Catholic Church are the traditional Catholics, who the world and THE VIEW think are crazy.
He advocates for a TLM without explaining why and he is transparently opus dei. Are they "traditional" Catholics? He's being hyped just a little too hard. Always suspect.
one of the nuns' concerns was Butker's assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. This statement goes against the true Catholic teaching that a calling to the priesthood or religious life is the highest calling: Canon X Session 24 of the Council of Trent—If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is …More
one of the nuns' concerns was Butker's assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. This statement goes against the true Catholic teaching that a calling to the priesthood or religious life is the highest calling: Canon X Session 24 of the Council of Trent—If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity, or in celibacy, than to be united in matrimony: let him be anathema.
So in fact, one of the the nuns' concerns is based entirely in Catholic dogma which Butker contradicted.
St Bernard once said that monks do women's work. He wasn't referring to women advertising executives. The point is that there is something contemplative about a life devoted to motherhood. Thus the link between the life of a nun and the mother of a family The Butkers attend Old St Patrick's Church in KC (ICKSP). He is a grad of Georgia Tech in industrial engineering. The irony of it all is that he …More
St Bernard once said that monks do women's work. He wasn't referring to women advertising executives. The point is that there is something contemplative about a life devoted to motherhood. Thus the link between the life of a nun and the mother of a family
The Butkers attend Old St Patrick's Church in KC (ICKSP). He is a grad of Georgia Tech in industrial engineering.
The irony of it all is that he is a fairly quiet guy.
