Call the men In the White Coats, She's Ready for a Padded Cell

As I was reading the posts on Fr. Z's blog, I came accross he titled Sr. Joan and the Usual Suspects . It is about her latest. & like Fr. Z, I am sure "I don’t even have to give her last name or the name of the publication" it was written in.

In it she compares what happenned to Louise Akers to Ghandi. OK, if that isn't enough to convince you she has finally gone off the deep end, then get this. After a long rambling rant on how Akers & Ghandi are so alike she goes on to talk about "voices that cry for justice". The voices she talks about? Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Teilhard de Chardin & Hans Kung. Not exactly the cream of the crop when it comes to orthodoxy or faithfulness to the catholic Magesterium is it? But she is holding them up as her heroes.

But then she has the gall to tie in Mary Ward, Mary MacKillop & John Cardinal Henry Newman as being of the same ilk as the above list of people. get that, people who were obedient to the Pope as well as faithful to the Magesterium & worked w/ the Pope for authentic change.

She goes on to say that people like Louise Akers are the wave of the future. She puts it thus: " she has the power of the present and the promise of the future on hers." To convince her readers that she is right she gives 2 suggestions. The thing is, they actually undermine everything she is trying to do.

1st she starts the article by saying: "History is a dangerous thing. Somebody ought to be reviewing some of it carefully now -- for the sake of the church, if nothing else. There may be a lesson to be learned here." OK Joanie, lets look at history & see what has happenned in the Catholic Church in the past. Let's look at your fellow heretics, Arius (Arianism), Mani (Manichæism), Pelagius (Pelagianism) or Nestorius (Nestorianism) & see how they ended up. The Catholic Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit condemned what they taught as heresy.

But apparently, for her truth is relative since she says: "Point: Let them all talk until, as a church searching under the impulse of the Spirit, we hear clearly where truth lies for us." I've got news for her, the truth never changes, what was wrong was wrong back then, & even when you & your buddies repackage the old lies in new wrapping it is still just as untrue now as it was then. & all the talking in the world will never change that. & the only spirit she is opperating under the impulse of is definitely not the Holy Spirt. It may be her own fallen spirit or a demonic one, but it is not the Holy Spirit that is guiding her. Also, to hear the truth, you have to be willing to listen, something she is anything but willing to do.

Now, on to her 2nd suggestion. After slamming the Magesterium & dismissing it, she goes on to say: "Maybe we should just all sit down and, if history is not convincing enough, read the New Testament. Read the parables, in fact, in which Jesus talks about how to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad, true and false. Matthew 13:30 may give us a clue. It reads, "Let both wheat and weeds grow up together till the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters 'First, collect the weeds and tie them together to be burned. Then, gather the wheat and bring it to my barn.'"

Where do I start with in this poor exigesis? Maybe she better read Acts 5 & see what happenned to Ananais & Saphira? Maybe she better read what the Epistles say about rejecting heresy? Or the many charges to the Church leaders to proclaim the truth.

As for her reference, it doesn't support her claims at all. All this says is that there will be weeds among the wheat, but at the end of time, the weeds (evil people, sinners) will be sent to hell for eternity. This says nothing about how to distinquish good from evil. She is perverting it to say that we are not supposed to call anything false, bad or wrong. In other words, she can call what the Church teaches wrong, but we can't say she is. do I detect a whiff of hypocricy & double standard?

At the end of the post Fr. Z has the following update: "In the meantime, a contributor, below, said:
Perhaps Sr Joan and her friends will follow the example of India and write a Declaration of Independence from the Church.

Exactly!

This is what the Indians did. They voted with their feet and left the Empire. They left. Right?Then? Their country split into parts and pretty much went to war with each other." Gee, did Joanie forget that part of history?

As I said, if there was any doubt left, her latest should be proof enough that she should be locked up in a padded cell & the key thrown away. Her rantings & ravings have reached lunatic proportions. Her actions are becoming ridiculous. Sadly, there are still some who buy into what she is selling. But, just like Arius et al, she will end up on the junk heap of Church history as well.