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Showing posts with label Church Closings. Show all posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011

From Dancing Nuns to New Age, Time Has Come to Save Churches and Turn Back to Sanctity


Pope Benedict XVI has slowly but surely moved on a course that will make him more than just the "caretaker" Pope many envisioned him to be.

And that will come, perhaps, because of his effort -- subtle, but powerful -- in nudging the Church back to greater reverence.

This has been seen in his encouraging re-establishment of elements from the older Mass (including in the way of music as well as the new Missal); requiring every bishop to allow the Latin Rite; and, most recently -- stunningly -- his closure of a major monastery in Rome that had allowed the singer Madonna to perform there and has a nun and former disco dancer who performed modern dance, in church, with a Crucifix. In the U.S. are dozens of convents and retreat centers where nuns have adopted Zen, yoga, and New Age therapies -- an untold scandal that seems to have evaded a Vatican visitation of convents (at least thus far) and the notice of local bishops.