A not-so-subtle message to the LCWR?
This is what Pope Francis asserted in his address to the participants in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) whom he received in audience this morning. . .
“Your vocation is a fundamental charism for the Church's journey and it isn't possible that a consecrated woman or man might 'feel' themselves not to be with the Church. A 'feeling' with the Church that has generated us in Baptism; a 'feeling' with the Church that finds its filial expression in fidelity to the Magisterium, in communion with the Bishops and the Successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome, a visible sign of that unity,” the pontiff added, citing Paul VI: “It is an absurd dichotomy to think of living with Jesus but without the Church, of following Jesus outside of the Church, of loving Jesus without loving the Church. Feel the responsibility that you have of caring for the formation of your Institutes in sound Church doctrine,* in love of the Church, and in an ecclesial spirit.”
Oh, yes. . .I think so!
* A good place to start: invite religious who support the "New Cosmology" to explore career opportunities outside the seminary/school of theology.
_______________________* A good place to start: invite religious who support the "New Cosmology" to explore career opportunities outside the seminary/school of theology.
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I'm pretty sure some in the LCWR would accept all this categorically.
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They've been doing that since the 70's. While in the studium I had a couple of LCWR type profs and they were very, very good at equivocation. . .
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