"The need for this public witness becomes a constant call to inner conversion, to justice and holiness of life on the part of each religious. It also becomes an invitation to each Institute to reflect on the purity of its corporate ecclesial witness. And it is for this reason that in my address last November to the International Union of Superiors General I mentioned that it is not unimportant that your consecration to God should be manifested in the permanent exterior sign of a simple and suitable religious garb. This is not only my personal conviction, but also the desire of the Church, often expressed by so many of the faithful. As daughters of the Church - a title cherished by so many of your great saints - you are called to generous and loving adherence to the authentic Magisterium of the Church, which is a solid guarantee of the fruitfulness of all your apostolates and an indispensable condition for the proper interpretation of the 'signs of the times.'"
-John Paul II (October 7, 1979 at Washington, D.C.).
1979, when John Paul "the GREAT" said this is when the investigation and actual dealing with the LCWR should have begun. Unfortunately, all we got was verbiage, papal focus directed elsewhere, and the Mess was left to fester and now [attempted] to be cleaned up over 30 years later.
ReplyDeleteAs a pastor, he was trying to be gentle. To nudge them in a better direction.
ReplyDeleteOkay that was 1979....32 years later they continue to spread dissent and heresy. Still nothing is done. Talk is cheap, to let this bunch of heretics to spread their errors to the lay faithful and cause disunity is a scandal of huge preportions. Why didn't he do something, why is this still going on. If they are allowed to remain "in the Church" with their pagan views then why is the SSPX allowed back "in the Church"? WHY?
ReplyDeleteLCWR has left Mary out. Mary says to us today, "I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be done to me as you say" (Lk. 1.38).
ReplyDeleteLCWR has an average age over 65; why not just wait for them to die or go to nursing homes? Why bother with the negative publicity? If they're not getting many new nuns/sisters, why not let them die out?
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