Pope Benedict XVI and Fr. Joe Tobin, of Detroit, named in 2010 as second in command of the Congregation for Religious
The Chicago Tribune is following the journalistic herd in slamming the Vatican for its investigation into the LCWR and its members who dissent from Church doctrine. See Mary Schmich’s “Nuns Stunned by Vatican Scolding.”
Here is our response to the Tribune:
“The problem here is not that men in the Vatican fail to understand women religious in America. It is that many of the large, traditional religious congregations have turned away from their original charisms. Anyone who works in Church vocations knows that women’s communities that are thriving with young applicants are those that wear habits, live a common life and practice common prayer. This is what is attractive to today’s Catholic single woman who has a vocation to religious life.
“The modernized religious groups, on the other hand, who may have good intentions, are following the wrong piper and are shrinking by the day.”
A good and lengthy review of the whole matter is on the website Renew America: “Sisters in Rebellion — Non Serviam“
