Sentences with phrase «woman religious»

Many great women religious are in communities that belong to the leadership conference and had no choice a few at the top called the shots.
The LCWR (which does not represent the views of 80 % of American Nuns, it is an association of religious orders that include 80 % of women religious in the U.S., but that does not mean that all of those nuns / sisters agree with the shenanigans of the LCWR, in fact most probably don't) brought this on itself and it needs to be reformed.
Hundreds of these parishes are administered by women religious who act, in effect, as pastors without portfolio.
What emanates from this detailed history, in fact, is a deep love of the consecrated and monastic life both on the part of the author and on the part of the many generations of women religious who fought to maintain and nurture a recognized place within the Church for those who, by choice, necessity, or family imperative, found themselves «brides of Christ.»
To get an idea of the US Leadership Council for Women Religious, the organisation of which the Holy See is making demands, and of some very different American nuns, see our Notes from Across the Atlantic column.
More clergywomen with the requisite ministry experience and an increasing number of Roman Catholics are entering programs (especially women religious and lay professionals); the number of blacks enrolled has grown slightly; and clergy from evangelical denominations are enrolling in much larger numbers, partly as a result of the growth in D.Min.
A nun who was addressing the pontiff on behalf of her sisters in the church lamented the necessary preoccupation of women religious with, «internal issues at the cost of mission.»
After the April announcement that the Vatican was taking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious into a form of ecclesiastical receivership, appointing Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to oversee the LCWR until its statutes and program are reformed, Tom Fox, a major figure at the National Catholic Reporter for decades, had this to say:
Some of our bishops are acting like bullies, abusing the authority of their offices in the name of enforcing orthodoxy... Dealing with U.S. women religious, these bishops» actions appear governed more by a desire to enforce obedience than to develop fidelity in our sisters... What the bully bishops claim to be matters of orthodoxy are really matters of pastoral style.
There still exists inequality and oppression in the Church regarding women religious, propounded by the use of gender - specific language:
Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.
While increased relevancy and effectiveness were focal points for altering lifestyles and practices during renewal, many wonder now if women religious in America have ever been more irrelevant and less effective.»
American women religious today still seem not to have discovered what it is that might assuage their longings, and the seriously ill social ecology of their lives is very much in danger of permanent demise.»
The future of women religious depends upon their ability to act justly, love deeply, and walk boldly with the spirit and one another into the relevance of today.
While McNamara recounts a history of repeated efforts on the part of the Church hierarchy to cloister women both from the world and male clerics, thus preventing any participation in sacramental or authoritative roles, her account also tells the story of countless women religious who endured, thrived, and often achieved renown despite such restrictive efforts.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious once represented nearly 100 % of the nation's nuns.
In former times there were women's mosques in some parts of China, used as religious and charitable centers for women and led by women religious teachers.
And many of the leaders of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious do not embrace the doctrine of the Catholic Church as truth.
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words - Maureen E. Fiedler and Kathleen Kennedy
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«Though many may reject the suggestion, perhaps love of Jesus Christ is simply not perceived as the underlying or determining factor in the life of many women religious in America.»
Yet Sister Florence insists that there are «inconsistencies» in the Church's explication on the role of women, especially women religious, and such inconsistencies are what ultimately drive Sister Florence and the LCWR in their search for «equality» in the Church.
THE FUTURE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS Two views of the Vatican's correction of the Leadership Council for Women Religious, rather different.
Brief for Global Catholic Climate Movement and Leadership Council of Women Religious as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15 - cv -1517-TC (D. Or.
Transforming Parish Ministry: The Changing Roles of Catholic Clergy, Laity, and Women Religious by Jay P. Dolan et al..
(CNN)-- The board members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group whose members represent 80 % of America's Catholic nuns, is meeting in Washington this week to decide how to respond to a Vatican doctrinal assessment that accused the group of espousing «radical feminism» and focusing too much on social justice issues and not fighting against contraception, abortion and same sex marriage.
The Vatican's criticism of the American nuns has «caused scandal and pain throughout the church community, and created greater polarization,» the Leadership Conference of Women Religious — which represents about 80 % of American nuns — said in a statement Friday.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, initially surprised by the Vatican's report last month, «plans to move slowly, not rushing to judgment» when the group's 21 - member board meets for three days in Washington, D.C., beginning Tuesday.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years - long «doctrinal assessment» investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 % of the Catholic nuns in the United States.
Everything changed after the Vatican publicly scolded The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group for U.S. nuns, for allowing «radical feminist themes» to go unchecked a conferences and in their literature.
A few weeks ago the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) met in Orlando, Florida for their annual assembly, and in their conference exercises, one can only be disappointed with their response to the Pope's call.
Perhaps Sister Florence does not mean to say «inconsistencies,» but «imbalance,» that the influence of women religious is disproportionate to their exalted state.
He spoke of the danger of clericalism, in fact, during his May 12 meeting with the superiors of women religious.
Pope Francis agreed to set up a «Study Commission on Women in the Diaconate» in response to a request made on May 12 during a meeting of the International Union of Superiors General of women religious.
That individualism was demonstrated last week when it became known that Pope Francis means to continue the correction and overseeing of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The picture above the article is displaying a group of Catholic sisters (Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist) that never belonged to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, but instead started the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious because they disagreed with the values of the LCWR.
«The Holy See and the Bishops of the United States are deeply proud of the historic and continuing contribution of women religious - a pride that has been echoed by many in recent weeks.»
Instead, I am sending my donation to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the doctrines under which the Vatican is laying into gays, women's health, social justice, and now the Women Religious is quite novel.
An extract from a paper given by Fr Edward Holloway to the women religious of the Consortium Perfectae Caritatis International Congress in Rome, March 1973.
In other words, when men and women religious were allowed by historical necessity, political crisis, or neglect to exist as small autonomous communities bound by a particularly tailored «rule,» syneisactism revealed itself.
After all the objections to the author's agenda and technique have been registered, the fact remains that Jo Ann Kay McNamara, former nun and current history professor at Hunter College, has written the first definitive history of women religious.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is a group of 1,500 nuns who lead over 300 religious orders.
«What's really at stake here, in the larger significance, is the future of the church,» says Sister Maureen Fiedler of the order of Sisters of Loretto, which is represented by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The growing communities of men and women religious are those that take the life of the vows seriously and that live their consecrated life in a distinctive way.
The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious is growing at a faster rate than the leadership conference, but Cummings said the numbers of new vocations there are «miniscule» as well.
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