In response to
Ms. Schmich’s article, “After Vatican Scolds Group, Nuns’ Silence is Strategy,”
I have to object to the very spirit of the article. Nuns do not define Catholic doctrine and
neither do the archbishops or Cardinals of the Church. The Catholic Faith is not a democracy – it is
handed down and preserved by Tradition for over 2,000 years. Ms. Schmich seems to imply that the nuns are
fighting with the men who “run the Church” in a quest to fight against old laws
in an attempt to serve Christ.
This is
utter garbage. Nuns, priests, and
laypeople are all called to defend and rise up to protect the timeless and
unchanging Catholic Faith. If anyone –
nun, priest, bishop, layperson – teaches that which the Church forbids, then
that person has placed themselves outside of the state of grace and outside of
the Catholic Church, which we believe to be the only Church through which
mankind can be saved.
Ms. Schmich
seems to think this is a matter of democracy.
This is not. This is a matter of
fighting off a new era where heresies are welcomed and embraced now by even
nuns and priests. Faithful Catholics
will not be silent. We will fight on for
the Church and for Christ, who is the True Head of the Visible Church on earth.
3 comment(s):
To the comment that I have deleted:
1. Jesus was not a Jew. He is God.
2. Women are not oppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
3. Other "faith traditions" do not worship the same God. They worship heretical interpretations but not the same God. Only the Catholic Church worships the one, true God.
Very well said. Couldn't have said it better myself. It's not surprising that the Trib didn't publish your piece, but too bad.
I'd like to believe, rightly, I think, that an awful lot of Catholics feel the same way as you, even in the overwhelmingly liberal Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. Then again, maybe not.
Many women today are unwomanly and forget that we have been "created to cooperate with man and in a very beautiful and ennobling sense to serve him, not to dominate him." -Mother Mary Francis, p.c.c. Yes, you are right. Women are not oppressed by the Catholic Church and it is vital that religious women be real women to respond to Gods call. because like mother Francis also expressed: self sacrifice is the special vocation of women in general. We all have an important role in our church, .... Thank you for this post I'm glad I found it.
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