Know Your Nuns - Dominicans Dissing & Dominicans Respecting the BVM Edition

On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December 2009, 2 events happenned involving Dominican nuns. The 1st event I put up a post about yesterday. It involve the infamous Sr. Donna Quinn. (below left in what passes for her idea of a habit)

You will remember that Sr. Donna recently had attention drawn to her for her working as an escort at an abortion clinic. She has also been very outspoken in her support of abortion & other positions in dissent with Catholic teaching. On Tuesday, after the defeat of the Nelson/Hatch/Casey amendment (restricting abortion funding) in the Senate, she sent out a letter thanking those who voiced their opposition to the amendment for helping to defeat it. As if that was not bad enough, she noted that it happenned on the Feast of the immaculate Conception & called it providential. Her reason? "Mary who by her assent, . . . was one of the first women in the New Testament to express Choice.”

In other words, she commits heresy & blasphemy in 1 sentance by proclaiming the Blessed Virgin Mary is pro-abortion since that is what the choice Sr. Donna claims Mary is in favor of. (Sr. Donna is a part of the Sinsinawa Dominicans who are a hotbed of dissent & heresy as I have pointed out before.

Compare that to the following from a different Dominican monastery. This is from the blog for the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary in Summit, NJ. On Tuesday 1 of the sisters went from the postulancy to the novitiate. At that point she received a new name as well. The title of the post says it all: OUR LADY GIVES US A NEW NOVICE!

Here is a picture of Sr. Mary Magadalene of the Immaculate Conception from that blog. She is standing in front of a statue of Mary in their refectory. (Follow the link for more pictures incluing 1 of Sr. Magdalene with the 5 others in various stages of the novitiate along with novice master, Sr. Mary Catharine.)

As I said before, the title says it all. They know that the Blessed Virgin is pro-life & is blessing their efforts with new members. This group of Dominicans would never be caught wearing wearing what Sr. Donna has on, they prefer more traditional habits. Nor would they help women to get an abortion. Since they are a cloistered contemplative order they would be praying for those who are reaching out to those women so that they would convince the woman not to have an abortion.

& while the Sinsinawa Domincans do mention the founder, St. Dominic & his founding of the 1st community of women in Prouilhe , it is interesting that they totally ignore where St. Dominic drew these women from. But Our Lady of the Rosary Monastery has no qualms about stating they were a group of women converts from the Albigensian heresy. But given that the Sinsinawa Dominicans prefer to foster heresy, is it any wonder they would revise their history?

I will conclude with 1 final comparision. 1st the view of the Sinsinawa Domincans on their ministry. "We believe that at the heart of ministry is relationship." & while that relationship does include mention of God, but only under the term Trinity, not Father, Son & Holy Spirit, but only God & Christ or the One (hopefully not Obama but it could be).

Then there is this on the Our Lady of the Rosary homepage:

Our Lord is waiting for YOU!
Our chapel doors are open from 6AM-7PM daily. You are welcome to come during those times to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, solemnly exposed in the monstrance.
Holy Mass is at 7:15 Monday-Saturday, 7:30 on Sunday.
Our schedule is posted on the Life and Mission Page.

I think this says it all.

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Added 11:30pm - 12/12/2009: Was thinking about this & have to add it. Look at the faces of Sr. Donna & Sr. Magdalene. Which 1 looks happy, filled with joy & the Holy Spirit? Which 1 looks miserable, filled with unhappiness & anger? Given that each is claiming to follow God in what they are doing, which 1's God would you rather serve? I think you know my answer.