Yes, Dolours, she is a long-time member of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She has a special vocation to those dying but that is a frightening thought that such a nun would help usher a soul leaving this mortal world with who-knows-what Catholic doctrine. I wouldn't be surprised if she offered to give them their last rites.
That is frightening. I'm surprised that nobody has reported her to her superiors or to the Bishop. We don't hear scary stories like that about nuns here although I expect they have the odd bad egg. Looking at the tape of the Dominican nuns in Carol's post, there are promising signs in the US. All dressed in proper habits, they were mostly young nuns and it looked like they had postulants too. Postulants are as rare as hens' teeth in the orders embracing the spirit of the age. Seagrace posted on another thread a link to the live webcam in the Divine Mercy shrine in Poland. I noticed a nun there wearing what appeared to be exactly the same type of habit as the statue of St. Faustina. Just as the Poles came to the rescue of European Christianity in the physical war against the Muslims during the crusades, they may well save the Church in Europe from losing the spiritual war against apostasy which is upon us now.
We have many orders of Dominican nuns here in the U.S. So many young, enthusiastic, and HOLY Sisters will eventually make their way into our schools and give our youth a life-saving shot in the arm. Of course not all is rosy here... https://www.churchmilitant.com/news...-to-create-priestless-parishes-run-by-deacone US CATHOLIC PRIESTS CONSPIRING TO CREATE ‘PRIESTLESS PARISHES’ RUN BY ‘DEACONESSES’ NEWS: US NEWS
Yes, but the blind will assert that no Pope will ever permit a female priesthood. They don't wear the vestments in Portugal but the push is on: Every report I have seen about these Communion services in Portugal claims that it is opening the door to a female priesthood. A couple of years ago such a claim would have been laughed at along with suggestions that remarried divorcees would be encouraged to receive Communion or priests would perform faux wedding ceremonies for homosexual unions. Who's laughing now? Note how the secular media focus on "overwhelmingly Catholic" Portugal. If only Our Lady of Fatima had told the children whereabouts in Portugal the Dogma of the Faith would always be preserved.
It has been that gradual, inch by inch movement of bringing women up on the altar that has made Catholics willing to take the next step. Female altar servers, receiving the Eucharist in the hands, women leading Communion services, and now a great probability of women deacons. I took a class about the early Church and was told that there were deaconesses, but only to assist the females who were being baptized by full immersion, for modesty's sake. I don't think that's a concern any longer.
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I think that whether the deacons in the early Church were as you described or really women priests depends on who teaches the class. I knew someone who did a part-time course in Maynooth about 30 years ago and she came out of that course believing that there were women priests in the early Church. It has, indeed, been an inch by inch movement to destroy the male celibate priesthood. It's a win-win for the trojan horse crowd because even if they don't succeed in getting women priests they will succeed in destroying the practice of attending Mass to receive Holy Communion. Every modernist innovation is about belittling the sanctity of the Blessed Eucharist. They make it appear that they are stressing the importance of the Eucharist by ensuring its availability to the faithful while all the time they wean people away from understanding the importance of worship and reverence in the presence of almighty God in Holy Communion. The end result of this could be the end of any kind of ordained priesthood with every Church member being regarded as a priest in his/her own right - not in our lifetime but I wouldn't rule it out in the long term.
The narrator read a description of the "art" at the beginning of the video and he labeled it "obscurantism", which seemed an apt name. It sounded very much to me like the drivel the Modernists use to describe their religious concepts in both their writings and speeches. Deliberatley vague and misleading. Praising the asinine and looking down at the normal.
I don't think so. A female priesthood is essentially like saying that the church is a lesbian, so, no, I don't think there's anything wrong with seeing it as perverse. It makes me wince too.
When we were kids, we would play dress up. If our dress up material was a lace curtain we were make believe princesses; if it was a towel or pillow case we were nuns. Then we grew up and lived in the real world. Those women look like they never grew up and are dressing up as priests. They just have fancier dress up gear than was available to us.
Traditional roles for men and women , which pleased Our Creator, have all but been abandoned We who try to hold the line and adhere to Tradition are not popular Btw Pres trump and his wife lit the national Christmas tree this evening and he wished the world a Merry Christmas He did not say Holiday
Dutch had predicted this for around the area of Wash. D.C. Strange, that with the map of this earthquake, we here near Philly didn't feel it: Earthquake rocks Delaware; shockwaves felt in N.J.
Russian Orthodox Leader Warns of Coming Apocalypse, Calls on Society to Rally in 'Critical Period' Share On Facebook Share On Twitter By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter | Nov 21, 2017 3:23 PM (PHOTO: REUTERS/SERGEI GUNYEEV/RIA NOVOSTI)Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill arrive for the meeting with Russian Orthodox church bishops in Moscow February 1, 2013. Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, warned on Monday that the end of the world is approaching and urged society to rally in this "critical time." Kirill was speaking after a service at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral when he said that the coming apocalypse "is already visible to the naked eye," The Moscow Times reported when translating an article from the state-run RIA Novosti. Kirill urged society to unite if it wants to prevent the world from slipping into "the abyss of the end of history." "Today is not the time to rock the boat of human passions," he added. "Today is the time to rally all healthy forces." "That's why the church, art, culture, our writers, scientists — all those people who love the Motherland — should come together because we are entering a critical period in human civilization." Russia's Persecution of Christians Intensifies; Putin Can't Be Trusted, Experts Warn Trump 'Only US Politician' Who Gives Christians Hope, Russia's Spiritual Leader Says Historic Orthodox Church Head Meeting Decades in the Making Takes Place With Russia Boycotting Franklin Graham, Christian Leaders to Hold World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians in Moscow Kirill has been outspoken on a variety of issues and made controversial statements in the past, blaming the rise of the Islamic State terror group back in 2016 on the world's "godless" embrace of homosexuality. "[ISIS] is creating a civilization that is new by comparison to the established one that is godless, secular and even radical in its secularism," the Russian Orthodox Church leader said in January 2016. "We can have parades for the sexual minorities — that is supported — but a million French Christian protesters defending family values are broken up by police," he added, referring to LGBT marches in Europe at the time. Kirill positioned that the "godless civilization is reaching maturity," and argued that enforced liberalism is behind some young people joining extremist groups. "Look how they (the West) build the world — an unholy world — but we invite you to build God's world. ... And they (ISIS supporters) respond to that; it is for this they give their lives," he said. In February 2016, he agreed to a historic meeting with Pope Francis, the first one between the heads of the two churches following their split over a millennium ago. Bishop Georges Abou Khazen OFM, apostolic vicar of Aleppo for the Catholics of the Latin rite, said that the meeting, which took place in Cuba, provided comfort and hope to suffering Christians in war-torn Syria. "The meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill is perceived by Christians as the fruit of the cross they are experiencing. The suffering of all Christians in the Middle East bears the fruit of unity. This for us is a great consolation and helps us to move forward, even if we still have to suffer," Khazed said. Follow Stoyan Zaimov on Facebook: CPSZaimov https://www.christianpost.com/news/...n-society-to-rally-in-critical-period-207385/
This thought struck me today: Simultaneously as less and less Catholics believe in the Transubstantiation of bread and wine into the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ (an entirely logical and coherent proposition if one infers that Jesus Christ is the omnipotent God), increasingly more are willing to accept the progressive notion that a man can, in an instant, transubstantiate into a woman by sheer exercise of will. And it is the Catholic believers that are mocked for their 'superstition'.
