LCWR Nun Has a Huge Enormous Soul!

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Give it another minute and it should start working.

Give it another minute and it should start working.

LCWR royalty Sr. Joan Chittister is a perfect example of the type of ‘nun’ Pope Francis and Cardinal Braz de Aviz have just green-lighted again.

At the Huffpo:

Like many spiritual teachers across all the major faiths, Sister Joan Chittister believes that the soul is an intrinsic part of our being — but this outspoken Roman Catholic nun defines it a little differently than some. As Sister Joan tells Oprah in the above video from “Super Soul Sunday,” she believes that the soul you’re born with isn’t necessarily the soul you have later in life.

As Sister Joan defines the soul, it is all about recognizing the beauty of life. “It’s layers of consciousness. It layers of awareness,” she says. “The more life that you let in, the more life you will have, and then your own soul does grow.”

This gobbledigook sounds a bit like the Holy Father.  Slice and dice the soul. Change it. Let the consciousness layers land on it. Watch it grow like a tomato so long as you live, live, live!  Let life in and then you will have it, a huge soul like mine!

The way the soul evolves, Sister Joan explains, is similar to how life itself unfolds: slowly and deliberately. This concept is poignantly articulated by French novelist and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in his 1942 memoir, Flight to Arras, which includes one particular line that has always stuck with Sister Joan.

“Exupéry says someplace something like this. He says, ‘To live is to be slowly born,'” Sister Joan cites.

Wow.  How deep is this!  Does Sister Joan know what a soul is?

The reason some people seem more soulful or as if they have “more” soul than others, she adds, is because they have grown their souls during their lifetime. “There’s no magic age; 18 doesn’t do it, 21 doesn’t do it,” Sister Joan says. “It’s a process.”

What is that process?  Does it have anything to do with Christ or His Church?  Why does this Joan-soul have to be so physical?  If it grows as big as Godzilla will I still fit in my suit?

Why does the pope who tried to correct this LCWR institutional monstrosity get hounded into isolation, then some sharpy moved in so that now, once again, we’re treated to these sinister life lessons?  How is it that these creepy pantsuits are more powerful than the actual Church?

“I don’t have the same soul that I had at 6,” she continues. “I have a soul now that’s thicker, deeper, warmer, broader, brighter, wiser than ever before.”

Forgive me but this sounds a touch witchy, doesn’t it?  Thicker, deeper, broader…also bright and wise.  Is this a nun or Nietzsche‘s Übermensch?

And Sister’s soul keeps getting warmer too, even at her age.  It’s practically burning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope, Peace, and Solidarity in New Obama-Francis Cuba

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On the side of the poor in Columbia and around the world

On the side of the poor in Columbia and around the world

Why does the American Press, the Pope, and the Vatican expect us to believe that atheistic, murderous Cuba, where the income tax is something like 98%, is simply a victim of American oppression.

Today, ten soldiers were killed and 17 others injured in western Colombia by militants who are believed to be from FARC, a leftist terror group. The violence breaks a four-month ceasefire between FARC guerrillas and Colombian forces.

Some FARC rebels are currently being harbored by the government of Cuba, instead of being turned over to Colombian authorities. According to documents released by WikiLeaks in 2010:

The [Cuban government] allows these groups to enjoy R&R in Cuba and receive medical care and other services… Reporting also indicates that the [Cuban government] is able to influence the FARC.

The secret cable sent in 2009 to Washington from the United States Interest Section in Havana (which operates out of the Swiss embassy there) also indicates that FARC doesn’t conduct operations in Cuba because the group has safe haven in the Caribbean nation. The cable also showed that FARC and Havana actively maintain a relationship through proxy political groups.

Cuban apologists counter that Havana has been hosting peace talks between FARC and Bogota since November of 2012, which demonstrates a willingness to combat terror.

Dialogue, dialogue and a culture of encounter.

But these negotiations don’t address the current status of any FARC rebels who may be hiding in Cuba. Plus, there have been other recent incidents linking Cuba to other types of support for terrorism or government interference, namely:

  1. The belief that the Cuban government is “actively developing and supporting the Venezuelan” government
  2. The July 2013 interception of a North Korean vessel that was carrying Cuban military aircraft and weapons (which were hidden under bags of sugar) headed for the Asian nation, which violates United Nations sanctions against North Korea
  3. The March detention by Colombian officials of a Chinese ship which contained undocumented weaponry headed for Cuba
  4. The indictment of pilots with the Cuban Air Force in connection with the 1996 premeditated attack on two U.S. civilian aircraft over international waters, which killed four people

In response to today’s attack on the Colombian troops, President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered the resumption of air attacks on FARC positions within the Latin American country.

Is this the kind of thing all these resurrected Latin American Jesuits and other dissidents keep finding saints over these days?

Marco Rubio: Baptist, Mass-Going, Gay Wedding-Attending Catholic

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Sharing love and joy at important events

Catholic Vote has just republished the assertion that Florida Senator Marco Rubio has returned to his Cuban Catholic roots.  Just the other day he was reported to ‘crave the Blessed Sacrament.’

It’s not unusual for people to claim to be Catholics yet in reality be some form of Protestant, but Sen. Rubio seems really to be embracing a ‘big tent Christianity.’  His wife attends a Baptist megachurch, where he is a regular contributing member.

Can one be both Protestant and Catholic?

As an adult, from 2000 to 2004 Rubio took a detour from his Catholic roots to exclusively attend Miami’s Christ Fellowship, a Southern Baptist megachurch to which Rubio has given at least $50,000.

Now straddling both Christ Fellowship and the Catholic Church, Marco Rubio seems positioned to appeal both to conservative Catholics but also the anti-LGBT, demon-casting, creationist segment of the Protestant evangelical right.

Though he’s now primarily and “firmly” Catholic, Rubio has recently toldReligion News Service reporter Sarah Pulliam-Bailey that he has “maintained the relationship with Christ Fellowship” and often attends services at the church.

At CatholicVote they say Marco Rubio goes to Mass every Sunday and to the Baptist Megachurch too!

Why no reference to a Catholic parish?

Marco Rubio had perhaps the most fascinating journey of them all. He was born in Miami and his Catholic parents were both born in Communist Cuba. When he was about 8, his family moved to Las Vegas. And for awhile the Rubio family became Mormon. By the time Marco was in sixth grade, his family left the Mormon Church. He received Holy Communion on Christmas Day 1984. When the family returned to Miami a year later, he received the sacrament of Confirmation. His wife encouraged him to start attending an evangelical church in 2000 — and they exclusively for several years. “I felt called back to Catholicism around 2004,” he said. When Rubio ran for the Senate in 2010, there was confusion about whether he was evangelical or Catholic. I spoke with Rubio’s spokesman JR Sanchez in 2010. Sanchez told me that Rubio went to Mass every Sunday but that he also attended services at the evangelical church. As noted by religion writer Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Rubio himself later confirmed this in his memoir.

It’s not hard to see how many Catholics today can make no real distinction between the Mass and Protestant services.  If they have no other exposure to the Faith, they’re fair game for all kinds of silly trendy ideas.

Today from Politico:

Marco Rubio says he would attend the wedding of a same-sex couple, even though the Republican Florida senator and newly minted presidential candidate has said he believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

Fusion host Jorge Ramos pressed Rubio on Wednesday about whether he would go to the same-sex ceremony of someone in his family or someone on his staff who happens to be gay.

“Happens to be gay”  You sure hear that a lot, as if it were all some casual accidental occurrence.

“If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events,” he told Ramos.

Terrific.  If it’s an ‘important event,’ then by all means participate.  It’s all about love the Bible says.