The Many Souls Of Sr Joan Chittister

I never knew that Oprah Winfrey had a show called "Super Soul Sunday".  One could say that only shows my ignorance of "modern culture" but I'm not so sure that "modern culture" really is true culture, but that's fodder for another post.  She interviewed Sister Joan Chttister, heretic nun extraordinaire, recently.  The phrase "blind leading the blind comes to mind, but again I digress.

The discussion revolved around the topic of souls.  I link to the Huffington Post piece on the interview for that has a video of the actual interview, with all the gobblygoop pouring out of Chittister's mouth for all to hear.  I also link to NewAdvent's discussion of the soul, and the Catholic theological and philosophical treatment of the same.

Now how does "light of consciousness of the beauty of life" conform to the definition of "soul" as set forth by the Magisterium?  It doesn't - but that's Chttister's definition of "soul", as set forth in the beginning of the video.  I will not go into a "blow-by-blow" expose of the myriad of errors tumbling out of Chittister's mouth - except to say that her babblings about "layers of consciousness" can and will facilitate justification for abortion and euthanasia.  She says her soul now is different than her soul as a child; it is "thicker, deeper. warmer, brighter, wiser".  Thankfully she didn't add "more humble" as a characteristic of her, uh, "modern soul".

Ladies and gentlemen, we can expect more of this pig-slop now that the Holy Father has given the LCWR (Liberal Coven of Witches Recusant * Leadership Conference of Women Religious) a free pass to continue their mischief.

Besides Chittister, we may be treated to the snoots and snorts of Sister Ilia Delio.  Remember her?  I wrote about her when I discovered she was on the faculty of Georgetown University.  The Remnant recently picked up on her too, outlining some similarities between her and Pope Francis.

We have Our Lord's promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.  However, much damage - and damnation of souls - will be the price to pay for the toleration of heretics in our midst.  Keep praying.  Keep shining the light and speaking out.

*Update - Pewsitter added the word "recusant" to my "LCWR" interpretation.  I like it!  I'll keep it!

In Case You Missed It..

Because I sure did!  What did I miss?  (Drum roll and trumpets, please!)

The 2012 Leadership Conference of Women Religious Assembly in St. Louis MO, from Aug 7-10

Actually it ends tomorrow (Deo gratias!), but their true colors certainly did fly.

From Father Z's blog we read that the keynote speaker of the event was Barbara Marx Hubbard.  What does she consider her life's mission?  Well, that's straight from her Facebook page: "to be a voice for the Collective Emergence of humanity as a Co-creative Universal Species".  I can just imagine that her address induced, uh, "deep meditation" among the attendees.  The National Catholic Reporter noted that "Teilhard would find in Barbara a kindred spirit".  The NCR might well be correct; many of Teilhard's writings were condemned by the Church!  At the very least, she certainly shows a knack for inventing interesting-sounding words like "regenopause".

By the way - for all their snivveling about what they claim is the Vatican's refusal to "dialog", why did they not allow the CDF laison, Bishop Sartain, to attend their meeting?  Such snubbing hardly seems conducive to "dialog".

There was a protest of the LCWR meeting.  By whom?  Right-wing religious zealots?  Nope!  SNAP!  There have been cases of abuse perpetrated by women religious.  So why, oh why, was there complete silence of this protest?  Had this been a clergy meeting, SNAP would have been featured front and center of all the coverage.  Could it be because the progressive media doesn't want to air "in-fighting"?  So much for truth in media.