Our Pantheistic Sisters

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Green sisters have reinterpreted their vows in light of Fr. Berry’s “new evolutionary cosmological consciousness.” Sr. Gail Wor*celo, who studied under Fr. Berry and took her final vows in his presence in 1991, declares that when he gave her the ring of final profession, she felt wedded “to a passionate love affair with the Divine as revealed in the universe story.” This is not quite the same as becoming the bride of Christ.

As for the vow of chastity, Sr. Elaine Prevallet says it means a “moral commitment to ease ecosystem stresses caused by a burgeoning human population.” Other green sisters likewise speak of this vow as a “lifetime commitment” not to give birth and as a “gift that sisters have given the earth community throughout the history of religious orders.” Tellingly, at the 1998 Sisters of Earth conference, Stephanie Mills was the keynote speaker: she is notorious for harping on the connection between “unchecked human population growth and ecological crisis” and, though not a sister, for having vowed herself to a “nonpro*creative life.”

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These environmental wackos are spreading their filth everywhere.

 

[manualman]

Reads like a new chapter from the book “Ungodly Rage.” I had thought that goofy stuff was starting to peter out by now…

 

[mschrank]

LOL.

No violent crusade needed here, this silliness will work itself naturally… “we fixed the glitch”. Although a slapping with a trout might suffice.

 

[ALLGIRLS]

So, it sounds like these “sisters” are not vowing to be chaste by the standard definition, but are vowing to not have children (I really hope they intend to accomplish that by remaining celibate, but something tells me not), and to discourage others from having children, which goes against Church teaching that married couples should be open to life. Doesn’t the Vatican have the right to suppress (I think that’s the right word?) Religious orders when they fall into heresy? Anyone contacted Rome about this?

In Christ,

Ellen

 

[manualman]

So, it sounds like these “sisters” are not vowing to be chaste by the standard definition, but are vowing to not have children (I really hope they intend to accomplish that by remaining celibate, but something tells me not), and to discourage others from having children, which goes against Church teaching that married couples should be open to life. Doesn’t the Vatican have the right to suppress (I think that’s the right word?) Religious orders when they fall into heresy? Anyone contacted Rome about this?

The local bishop has the primary job of shepherding the flock, religious and lay, then the superiors of the order and THEN Rome. This is why correction takes time. It’s a big world and the papacy isn’t primarily an uber-police office. We’re just unlucky enough to live in the immediate aftermath of a major council.