{"id":14340,"date":"2013-08-06T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14340"},"modified":"2013-08-06T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:24:39","slug":"double-secrete-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/08\/double-secrete-probation\/","title":{"rendered":"Double secret probation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain will take on his \u201cother\u201d job next week, flying to Florida as the Vatican\u2019s point man in a bid to make the largest organization of American nuns toe the Vatican line.<\/p>\n

Sartain will be present in Orlando for the entire annual assembly of the Leadership Council of Women Religious, and will speak and answer questions at the gathering of approximately 900 women religious. The LCWR speaks for about 80 percent of the Catholic nuns in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going into this assembly knowing that there\u2019s a cloud over our head and that we are being investigated and they are going to be monitoring us,\u201d Sr. Theresa Kane, a former president of the LCWR, told National Catholic Reporter.<\/p>\n

Sartain is \u201cshowing up and he\u2019s staying for the entire assembly. It\u2019s monitoring. There\u2019s a cloud \u2026 and we\u2019re living through it,\u201d Kane added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ever see an older car driving along that obviously had not had a tune up for years or emission repair? The driver seems to be oblivious to the semi-noxious cloud spewing from his car and just driving along. This is the LCWR.<\/p>\n

In a article like this you don\u2019t have to wait long for a gratuitous Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI swipe coming in 3\u20262\u20261.<\/p>\n

With the advent of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church has put on a far more friendly and merciful face. His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, was a former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and was informally nicknamed \u201cGod\u2019s rottweiler\u201d for crackdowns on theologians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although I have to give them props for restraint in not connecting the CDF to the Holy Inquisition, a history lesson often repeated. I do wonder if unsympathetic reporters covering religion have a quota regarding the word crackdown. Perhaps editors reject stories on the Catholics Church unless the word crackdown or slam was used somewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think however he (Sartain) presents himself \u2014 and especially however he presents what he has learned this year in engaging with LCWR \u2014 that will be key: How does he see fidelity to our mission?\u201d Sr. McDermott added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah but the problem is their mission to fidelity.<\/p>\n

Sartain can also look around his own diocese and the pivotal role women play in holding it together.<\/p>\n

With fewer and fewer priests, there are cases where two Seattle parishes are \u201ctwinned\u201d and share a priest, as well as priests in their late 70\u2019s continuing to serve.\u00a0 Women administrators are running several parishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly how is this statement have anything to do with the content of the article? I guess the syllogism goes:<\/p>\n