New PC bishop throws out Mother Angelica's order
Virtue on line, an Anglican site, discusses the war of the latest PC bishop of San Antonio against the AngloCatholic ordinate church there, and as a side effect has thrown out Mother Angelica's nuns.
I also am reading very traditionalist Catholic blogs that the Pope has orders about new cloistered groups, but that some pious Catholics are just living together, wearing funny clothing, and saying the office etc. as if they were living in a cloister.
The Fiery AnneBarnhart writes about the controversy, which has implications against cultish groups but also against ordinary traditional Catholic groups. Caution: like Trumpieboy, her language is NSFW.
one could say: Hey, why not have both, but a lot of trad blogs point out that the Pope is busy dismatling Catholic morality to fit into the NWO, so they must be destroyed.
I have worked all my life in poor areas, but the emphasis on making "the poor" a priority seems to me a bit off. (as in rich people take care of the poor as you do a pet...while excoriating the middle class who work hard, care for family and friends, and follow the rules, and of course, ignoring that the poor aren't having the gospel preached to them or telling them about Jesus' power to save their souls).
The danger of religious groups falling into cultlike activities is an ongoing problem. A lot of the complaints against Opus Dei come under this, and the question is if it is an aberration or widespread. I know in the Intercessors of the Lamb, it went over the line, and half the group went with the bishop and got "reformed" into a more regular group, but half stayed with the program as laywomen living and praying on their own. And, of course, if you read Mother Angelica's biography, as a young nun she was made "assistant novice director" to counter the harm done the nun who was tyrannizing the young novices.
the problem? now we are seeing the Pope pushing his power to "reform" the church to make it a social service agency pushing elite memes like the dying German Church, or to push it into the 'liberation theology" church that has resulted in such huge numbers of South Americans becoming Protestant.
The wishywashy vs the strict.
This is nothing new: see the Port Royale convent controversy, or the way the inquisition looked into St Teresa of Avila's newfangled reformed monastery.
the Port Royale controvery was about Jansenism (a Calvinist strict emphasis on following the rules) vs Jesuit laxness/mercy. Hmm. sounds familiar.
I also am reading very traditionalist Catholic blogs that the Pope has orders about new cloistered groups, but that some pious Catholics are just living together, wearing funny clothing, and saying the office etc. as if they were living in a cloister.
The Fiery AnneBarnhart writes about the controversy, which has implications against cultish groups but also against ordinary traditional Catholic groups. Caution: like Trumpieboy, her language is NSFW.
one could say: Hey, why not have both, but a lot of trad blogs point out that the Pope is busy dismatling Catholic morality to fit into the NWO, so they must be destroyed.
I have worked all my life in poor areas, but the emphasis on making "the poor" a priority seems to me a bit off. (as in rich people take care of the poor as you do a pet...while excoriating the middle class who work hard, care for family and friends, and follow the rules, and of course, ignoring that the poor aren't having the gospel preached to them or telling them about Jesus' power to save their souls).
The danger of religious groups falling into cultlike activities is an ongoing problem. A lot of the complaints against Opus Dei come under this, and the question is if it is an aberration or widespread. I know in the Intercessors of the Lamb, it went over the line, and half the group went with the bishop and got "reformed" into a more regular group, but half stayed with the program as laywomen living and praying on their own. And, of course, if you read Mother Angelica's biography, as a young nun she was made "assistant novice director" to counter the harm done the nun who was tyrannizing the young novices.
the problem? now we are seeing the Pope pushing his power to "reform" the church to make it a social service agency pushing elite memes like the dying German Church, or to push it into the 'liberation theology" church that has resulted in such huge numbers of South Americans becoming Protestant.
The wishywashy vs the strict.
This is nothing new: see the Port Royale convent controversy, or the way the inquisition looked into St Teresa of Avila's newfangled reformed monastery.
the Port Royale controvery was about Jansenism (a Calvinist strict emphasis on following the rules) vs Jesuit laxness/mercy. Hmm. sounds familiar.
The atmosphere of serious study and Jansenist piety attracted a number of prominent cultural figures to the movement, including theologian and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal defended the schools publicly against the Jesuits in the Jansenist controversies which agitated the French Roman Catholic Church, in his Provincial Letters in 1657.
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