NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
No bias in this article. Maybe NPR finds it so hard to believe that young girls would want to be nuns that they think the story is ridiculous enough on it's face.
My awesome spiritual director Fr. Ed Broom of St. Peter Chanel often says "the problem with the Church today is not that there aren't enough Catholics. It's that there are too many of them." I agree. If we lost the tepid Catholics what would be left would be group of faithful, following Rome's magisterium strictly. If all the parishes were of this ilk, the Church would flourish like never before. Where ever this kind of orthodoxy is followed you have giant crowds. This article is another example. These nuns and others of the JP2 generation can't get enough when it's done according to the book.
Modernism + Catholicism = yawn. My Church is very orthodox. It's packed with 5 masses a day, 9 on Sunday, and they don't just churn out alter boys, they actually churn out priests and nuns. People thrive on this kind of conservatism. Recently on my EWTN radio program I interviewed Donald Calloway, the vocations director for the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. Here's another order that is having no trouble attracting vocations. It's conservative (they don't use this term, but it's the most efficient way to describe them) with strict obedience to Rome's directives, and they are thriving. Fr. Calloway is a good example if you know young people that have gone astray. He used to be a gangster in Japan for the Yakuza, a punk rocker in the South Bay (so. cal), and he ended up as a Marian priest. His story is amazing.
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Jul '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
My wife joined the Presbyterian Church a year ago. Like the other mainline denominations, it is shedding members like the trees of autumn. I think the problem is it embraced modernity a decade or so ago as reasonable, as if reason has anything to do with religious faith. It became politically liberal, interested itself in social justice and called for the boycott of investments in Israel. The pastor, a likeable man, occasionally takes pot shots from the pulpit at Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives. In short, it has become rather like the Democratic Party dressed up in clerical robes.
Jun '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
In a society that embraces every type of relativism as the wisdom of the time, tradition and orthodoxy are the most radical stances you can take.
See, punk rock does go with Catholicism :) give 'em the boot, the roots the radicals, give 'em the boot, you know I'm a radical, give 'em the boot, the roots the reggae on my stereo
My idol, Peter Kreeft talks about how currently the Church is prosperous, relatively rich, and free - and large, as you point out, Joe. PK draws parallels to ancient Israel in these respects. He adds that if the Lord loves His Church he will, in the near future, make it small and persecuted, and a new spring will come. The blood of the martyrs is, after all, the seed of the Church.
Edited on Dec 23, 2010 at 6:03amAug '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
It's funny what people (NPR) will do when their funding is perceived to be at risk.
Not to worry, they will revert to form when the threat passes.
Jun '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
Your Grace, (I usually reserve that title for the Bishop:) the Presbyterian church "embraced modernity" many decades ago, not one. I was raised in it.
When one is ready for radical Christianity, why settle for the small "o" orthodox niche of the RC, when you can go for the original big "O" Orthodox Church?
And, Samwise, yes, "the blood of the martyrs is...the seed of the Church." And, if the direction of this country is any indication, we're heading toward martyrdom in a hurry. Which is why learning love - not tolerance - for one's neighbor is imperative. We'll be saved, or lost, through our neighbor.
Jun '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
I'll let my boy G.K. handle that question :)
http://chesterton.org/gkc/theologian/whycatholic.htm
Merry Christmas all.
Jun '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
Hello Samwise, I did read quickly through the linked article, but did not find his reason for not becoming Orthodox. For many people, being RC is but a stop on the way to becoming Orthodox, whether the person actually joined the RC church or simply investigated it.
Merry Christmas!
Edited on Dec 23, 2010 at 9:06amMay '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
Many RCs would be surprised if they visited a mainstream Protestant church on the Sunday when they recite the Nicene Creed:
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
(It sure surprised me growing up.)
May '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
BTW, while we're on the subject of religion, my favorite name for a church is this one in Kansas City.
Jun '10
Re: NPR produces a great story with no bias, on Conservative Catholic Nuns no less.
Outstripp, yes that church name is a winner!
Of course, "catholic" simply is Greek for universal. It is not a reference to Rome.