Catholic Nun to Lead Presbyterian Seminary

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How/why is this even permitted?

Full article: ncronline.org/news/catholic-nun-lead-presbyterian-seminary

BLURB: When Sr. Elizabeth Liebert takes over as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary on June 30, she will become the first Catholic nun to lead a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary, according to the school. Liebert has taught at San Francisco Theological Seminary for 22 years, and was the first Roman Catholic to receive tenure at the 138-year-old seminary.
 
Brigadoon said:
How/why is this even permitted?

Full article: ncronline.org/news/catholic-nun-lead-presbyterian-seminary

BLURB: When Sr. Elizabeth Liebert takes over as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary on June 30, she will become the first Catholic nun to lead a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary, according to the school. Liebert has taught at San Francisco Theological Seminary for 22 years, and was the first Roman Catholic to receive tenure at the 138-year-old seminary.
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Not all churches with “Catholic” in their name are obedient and under the Pope (Benedict XVI). They are “suspicious” says I. Read their “Dialogue within the church” page:

snjmusontario.org/Dialogue_Within_the_Church.html

Our SNJM Chapter Acts put it this way: “We recognize that we are members of a church in need of conversion. We join with others who desire a more inclusive church of communion, mutuality, and justice. Therefore we will: encourage each Province/Sector to give priority to forming small faith communities, and continue to seize opportunities for dialogue and reconciliation in the Church.” This page lists links that can help put those dialogues into context…
 
Okay, one more:
Under thieir “Foundress”:

…Inspired by Marie-Rose Durocher, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and our Associates, work today on four continents. As always, SNJMs Serve in the Names of Jesus and Mary…

They are “inspired” by her.

More from the same page: After six short, full years as Superior and Foundress, she died on October 6 — her birthday — in 1849. She was 38. Her ccomplishments during that short life led Pope John Paul II to beatify her on May 23, 1982, as a woman for all times.

“Inspired” by a Saint.
 
Brigadoon said:
How/why is this even permitted?

Full article: ncronline.org/news/catholic-nun-lead-presbyterian-seminary

BLURB: When Sr. Elizabeth Liebert takes over as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary on June 30, she will become the first Catholic nun to lead a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary, according to the school. Liebert has taught at San Francisco Theological Seminary for 22 years, and was the first Roman Catholic to receive tenure at the 138-year-old seminary.
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Looks like the usual drivel about 'spirituality" and one of the reasons there is to be an official visitation of some sort into women’s religious orders.
 
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Looks like the usual drivel about 'spirituality" and one of the reasons there is to be an official visitation of some sort into women’s religious orders.
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I heard that as well…an Apostolic Visitation to look into the quality of life at provincial houses (to take up to two years.)

However, there is something additional now that should have more teeth to it. The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith is doing a “doctrinal assessment” of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious…it has only taken Rome 8 years to decide to do this…according to the article, initial concerns about this group were expressed in 2001!

Well, better late than never, I suppose…the Vatican has never been known to do things in a hurry! :rolleyes:

ncronline.org/news/women/vatican-investigates-us-women-religious-leadership
 
Brigadoon said:
How/why is this even permitted?

Full article: ncronline.org/news/catholic-nun-lead-presbyterian-seminary

BLURB: When Sr. Elizabeth Liebert takes over as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary on June 30, she will become the first Catholic nun to lead a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary, according to the school. Liebert has taught at San Francisco Theological Seminary for 22 years, and was the first Roman Catholic to receive tenure at the 138-year-old seminary.
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Permitted by whom? By the Presbyterians or by the Roman Communion?

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I don’t see enough information in the article to get worked up about it quite yet.

Certainly weary modern experience suggests that this will be another case where the catholic put catholicism aside in order to do the job requested. But it isn’t necessarily so. A Jewish woman teaches at my kids catholic school. She hasn’t converted, but isn’t leading little lambs away either.

Posters like Contarini here seem perfectly able to teach other points of view from those which he holds without compromising his own beliefs (or even necessarily holding them back).

I say insufficient evidence to convict.
 
manualman—22 years! You’d think she would have made her ecumenical points long before then.` Sorry, I sense there is more to this than sharing the “fullness of truth”. I would love to sit down and talk to her to uncover her “beliefs” regarding the hot topics dividing the Church in our age, e.g., abortion, birth control, sin and the sacrament of reconciliation, celibacy, woman ordination, the Magisterium, biblical interpretation, among many others.

Just guessing. But I’d bet I could divine her positions on most “hot” topics and, believe me when I sincerely acknowledge: I am not a psychic or gifted with any “sixth sense”. These are strange and dangerous times we live in, not just for Catholicism, but for Christianity in general. And, it doesn’t take much to see that!

A very HUMBLE opinion: don’t think she would have survived that long (22 years) if she wasn’t pretty amenable. (Otherwise, I would question the strength of the faith of her Presbyterian brothers and sisters!)

“Faith is the yardstick of love.”
 
Aren’t religious orders supposed to be building up the Catholic Church? While she is certainly accomplished, she should try to be evangelizing them. I love God & our religion so much, I want everyone to be a part of it!! If they settle for anything less, then they are truly settling.
 
I can’t imagine she would still be in good standing with her bishop, but that is his problem. We have a lot of Presbyterian relatives in our extended family, including a couple of ministers and some church elders, who would certainly be incensed at the very idea of a Catholic, a woman, and a nun at that leading their seminary. However they are incensed at the ups and downs of their church over the past few years as they first affiliated and then broke those associations with various liberal denominations. Seems as if, from the outside, they are split as are the Episcopalians. Pray for unity, pray for unity, pray for unity, but never at the cost of truth.
 
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