If You Say You Are Catholic, Then You Better Be Catholic

I am sure that the LCWR will not be any happier with this probe than they were with the announcement of the original visitaion announced recently by the Vatican. Given that most of the members of the LCWR are hotbeds of New Age doctrine as well as radical feminism it is a safe bet that the results will show that they are not being faithful to their root charism. But those orders who belong to the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious have nothing to worry about as those are the ones that have actively supported the priesthood as well as orthodox Catholic doctrine.

I suspect that the next few days will see all the same people who screamed about the other visitation scream about this. (Non-Catholic Reporter, Joan Chittister, etc) & you will here screams of it being an inquisition & threats to secede (IMHO let them). But what is happenning is what has been long needed housecleaning. It will take time, but in the end, just like in the past, we will see a much needed renewal & restoration of those orders who have members that want to be faithful to the founding charism. & like those times in the past when those in the orders refused to let the needed housecleaning take place, new orders faithful to the magesterium will spring up. (We are already seeing this happen.)

Vatican probes nuns over church teaching

Vatican plans to investigate US Catholic nuns to ensure they are promoting Church teachings on homosexuality and the all-male priesthood.

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) said it was informed of the "doctrinal assessment" in a letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican watchdog.

The Vatican launches the probe saying the sisters have not addressed matters of concern -- homosexuality, salvation and the priesthood, which the Vatican says is reserved for men.

Vatican officials have asked the American sisters to "report on the initiatives taken or planned" to promote the church's teachings on the exclusively male character of the priesthood, the primacy of the Catholic Church over other Christian denominations, and the "problem of homosexuality."

The doctrinal investigation comes three months after another Vatican-ordered study of "the quality of life" in 400 women's religious congregations in the US. That study was prompted by the dramatic decline in the number of American women entering religious orders over the past several decades.

Between 1945 and 2000, the number of religious sisters in the US dropped 54 percent, from 122,159 to 79,876, according to Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. That number has continued to drop since 2000.