Nuns without habits

[fin]

archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/11/22/camardo/index.html

it’s sad that she disagreess with some Church teachings

 

[Dale_M]

The article was written in 2000. It appears she took her perpetual vows on September 3, 2006. serraclubnewsletters.org/Clubs/NewsletterView.aspx?I=11

fin:

it’s sad that she disagreess with some Church teachings

Yes, and perhaps her views have changed in the intervening years. It would be nice if Salon were to do a follow-up article on her.

 

[joeganshert]

archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/11/22/camardo/index.html

it’s sad that she disagreess with some Church teachings

I’d like to see a list of Church teachings that she supports. She claims that she’ll go along with all Church teaching, yet, she supports abortion and gay “rights.” I don’t know if this article is credible or what is going on with the article or her, I’m absolutely flabbergasted. She, judging by the article, turns the vocation to serve the poor and needy, to a “look at how special I am” badge. I have the greatest respect towards those who give up their lives for God, but she seems to be… well read the article for that one. We’ll have to pray that her vocation, and all vocations, may be holy and numerous.

 

[m134e5]

If people want to be social workers, they should be social workers. Why take religious vows you do not intend to keep just to be a social worker?

 

[Dale_M]

Why take religious vows you do not intend to keep just to be a social worker?

Why do you think she doesn’t intend to keep her vows?

You ask, why not just a social worker? I think her answer is below:

After years of reading and talking about religious life, she decided to attend a religious retreat for women who were trying to discern their calling. “In the year before, I woke up so many times in the middle of the night, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do this!’” But something changed on her first morning at the retreat: She says she was finally blessed with a moment of “heightened awareness.” Camardo, isolated within a world of spiritual sisters, finds it nearly impossible to explain in lay terms the course of events or feelings that led her to join the sisterhood.

“I woke up in the early hours with an unusual depth of peace and joy. I knew I wanted to be a Sister of Charity,” she explains.