Episcopal Priest, 10 Nuns To Be Confirmed Catholic: “This Is Very Much The Work Of The Holy Spirit”
An Episcopal priest and 10 nuns from the Episcopal order Society of All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor, all who reside in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, will be confirmed into the Church at September 3 Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, according to the archdiocesan paper, The Catholic Review. The nuns will continue their ministry. The priest, Warren Tanghe, is discerning the priesthood.
According to the article, found via Catholic Online:
Orthodoxy and unity were key reasons the sisters were attracted to the Catholic faith. Many of them were troubled by the Episcopal Church’s approval of women’s ordination, the ordination of a gay bishop and what they regarded as lax stances on moral issues.
The nuns strove to be a “witness for orthodoxy” within the Episcopal Church, but Mother Christina Christie, the community’s superior, said that by not doing anything more than that they sent the wrong message. They resisted pleas to stay as well as their own thoughts of joining the more orthodox Anglican American church, newly formed in a much publicized schism with the Episcopal Church over issues of orthodoxy, such as the consecration, in New Hampshire, of the openly homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson.
In the end, however, the Holy Spirit directed them to the Church — for some time, the sisters individually were secretly contemplating Catholicism. When they realized this, the decision was easier to make. Said Mother Christina:
This is very much the work of the Holy Spirit.
There was some earthly help, too, although, of course, the Holy Spirit was working there as well: As it turns out, the nuns greatly admire Pope Benedict XVI.
Let’s hope that these traditional Anglo Catholic nuns don’t go the way of modernist Novus Ordo orders like the Sisters of Saint Joseph, and ditch their religious habits after their conversion. We don’t need any more sisters with big hairdos in slacks..the Catholic Church needs to reclaim its tradition, and that means returning home to the Traditional Latin Mass and turning its back on the Protestant Novus Ordo Mess.
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