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These Last Days News - September 21, 2010

Liberal Nuns Speak Out Against Vatican Investigations...

"The antichrist forces of the agents from hell are out now in great numbers invading Our convents and seminaries, My child.  You must hasten to reach your pastors with the Message." - Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1975 

CNN reported on September 17, 2010:

The "talk" has been "heated" of late on Sister Maureen Fiedler's WAMU radio show in Washington DC. A sample: "Some of my friends asked me whether Vatican officials suffer a deep-seated hatred of women."

Sister Maureen understands why her listeners, mostly Catholic nuns and religious women, feel the need to sound off. They've been frustrated, even angry, ever since the Vatican ordered two sweeping investigations into the religious views and lifestyles of American nuns.

"What I hear from a lot of lately with regard to this investigation," said Fiedler, "is, let me get this straight: It's priests that abuse children. Some priests, of course. It's bishops that covered it up. So they're investigating nuns?

One of those Vatican-ordered investigations, which are now nearing completion, involves a two-part questionnaire consisting of 120 detailed questions like: What is the process for responding to sisters who dissent publicly from Church teaching...? How does the manner of dress of your sisters...(lend) to the dignity...of your vocation? And, what are the procedures for dealing with matters (like) civil disobedience, criminal activity, sexual improprieties, etc?

Sister Marlene Weisenbeck is concerned, too. She is the past president of Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization that says it represents tens of thousands of nuns and women religious across the country. She says many nuns are alarmed by what they call intrusive questions put forth by the male hierarchy of the church.

"We weren't quite expecting to walk into this kind of process that would test our authenticity and our integrity."

Last month, LCWR held its annual leadership conference to discuss, among other things, how to handle the Vatican investigations. Some nuns have decided to fight back by boycotting all or part of the questionnaire. Others are still deciding whether to answer questions in a second Vatican-ordered investigation, one that involves face-to-face questioning in nuns' homes and convents. The second round of that investigation will start soon.

Fiedler, who in addition to her radio show, also wrote, "Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling," is more blunt about what nuns fear from these investigations. She says nuns, who haven't lived in convents since the 1950's, will be forced to live that way again and be forced back into wearing a habit. They also fear Rome wants to silence them when they disagree with the Pope on issues like gays in the church and women's rights.

The fear, says Fiedler, "is they want to be able to control what nuns do…in every aspect of their lives."

The Vatican says that fear is "unfounded." And, it aims to prove it. Rome just appointed Father Joseph Tobin the number two official for religious life. He is well-liked and respected by many American nuns and hopes to calm the fears surrounding the investigations.

"Some of it," he says, "might be a very deep-seated misunderstanding. There is a need for dialogue and dialogue means that two parties are honestly conversing in search of the truth."

Truth is what Sister Marlene Weisenbeck wants, too. But, she adds, "There is no turning back. I don't think that happens in any living organism. God doesn't turn the creation in opposite directions."

In other words, there is no turning back the clock on American nuns.

"My child, I wish you also to make note in your heart and the hearts of all mankind that I am much despaired, as Theresa, Our Little Flower, is much despaired at the lack of numbers in the nunneries. Vocations are needed for the priesthood, and also for the nunneries.
     "Are there not any who care to come forward and dedicate their lives to save Our young children? Please, My children, surely among you, those who hear My voice or will read this written word, can you not give your life to win your reward forever in Heaven? And perhaps also, those you love you can bring with you. So many little souls are crying. They thirst for the knowledge of Jesus and all of Heaven. Will you not solace them and comfort them in their loneliness? They are like sheep out in the wilderness, astray with no leaders. They are wandering. And what do they feast upon but weeds. No good nourishment is being given them. Will you not, My children, you who are children of the light, come forward and become nuns, nuns with good hearts, with a good foundation of the Faith and the truth, and nourish Our sheep?” - Our Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1982

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Our Lady of the Roses awesome Bayside Prophecies... https://www.tldm.org/../Bayside/
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

PURPOSE OF LIFE
"While you are upon earth you are there to do honor and glory to your God in Heaven. You must know Him, love Him, and serve Him in this world, so that you will be happy with Him forever in the next." - Our Lady, June 1, 1978

THE  DEDICATED  ARE  LEAVING
"My child, We watch and see the houses of My Son crumbling, being destroyed throughout your world. Doors are closing, convents are emptying, and the dedicated are leaving and falling into all manner of sin and abominations. Who shall be in the remnant? Only a few will be saved." - Our Lady, May 26, 1976 

INFILTRATED
"Yes, My child, I spoke to you of the evil ones who have infiltrated into the clergy. They are not entering with dedication and spirits of light, but they are bringing in the spirit of darkness. By their fruits will you know them, My child. I have asked you to be not fooled by those who wear the garments of the dedicated but have fouled their garments. You must pray more for the light and recognize the faces of evil about you, My child." - Jesus, June 5, 1975 

OBEDIENCE
"In the cause of obedience, pastors and Our dedicated nuns, remember this: you cannot be obedient to one who has defamed his habit, to one who has cast aside his Faith, to one who goes forward as a destroyer of souls. The rabat is the teacher of life, but do not be fooled by those who foul these habits." - Our Lady, August 5, 1976 

COME  FORWARD
"Will you not, My children, you who are children of the light, come forward and become nuns, nuns with good hearts, with a good foundation of the Faith and the truth, and nourish Our sheep?" - Our Lady, June 18, 1982  

JESUS  MADE  THE  RULE
"Jesus the Lord, your Lord, my sisters and brothers, has made the rule. You cannot change it to suit yourselves. You have been blinded by satan. The liberation in your hearts has been placed there by satan. You gain nothing but your own destruction. Nuns, those who have accepted the rule and taken the habit, must remain in the habit." - St. Theresa, October 2, 1975 

GARMENT  OF  PURITY
"Holiness and piety! Man—men of God, you must wear your garment of purity, dedication, and piety. What manner of foul deeds do you perform for the destruction of your sheep! For what? Material gain and pride and arrogance? You shall be cast into the abyss! Rank shall give you no advantage when you come over the veil." - St. Michael, December 24, 1975 

WOE
"And woe to the clergy who has given himself over to worldliness and sin! Woe to the clergy who rejects his vocation and chooses a life upon earth after he has taken his vows! I say unto him: the judgment will fall great upon him." - Jesus, August 4, 1979 

MOCKED
"Know now, my brothers and sisters of religious orders, you will be mocked, you will be scorned, but you will please the Eternal Father and receive your reward in the Kingdom." - St. Francis, May 28, 1975  

THE  "BUCK-PASSER"
"I see, My children, a great evil transpiring upon earth. Those who have the power to stop the evil have chosen to go downstream like ducks upon water, letting everything slide off their backs, neither caring nor visualizing the future. And why?  Because they have given themselves to the world.
     "Just as My Son stood before Pilate and he washed his hands and said: 'This man is innocent; I see no wrong in him,' however, in his heart he knew of innocence but he feared reprisal from the crowd, My children; he valued his life, he loved his sin, and he was too much involved with the pleasures of this life and the world.
     "You see, My children, it is taking place all over again for those in command in rule. They go along 'passing,' as you say, 'the buck,' each one not willing to admit his error or his participation in evil, but only too willingly allowing others to take the blame or the responsibility. And I assure you, My children, if evil is being allowed, the 'buck passer' is just as guilty as the original one who had started the evil.         
     "If you know in your hearts, O pastors, that souls are in danger of being corrupted, misled, and even destroyed, and you do nothing about it, because you do not wish to offend your superiors, because you value your life in this world too much and your good living; I assure you, O pastors, you shall stand before My Son and He shall not know you. You will be disowned, banished from eternal life in Heaven, and you shall join your father who is the father of all liars, satan, and the prince of darkness." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977   

DO  NOT  LEAVE
"Do not leave when you are discouraged by those who satan has sent into your convents. Stand forth as an example of purity and godliness. You will not be cast aside by your God, as you will by man, as you stand to defend your God. Pick up your cross and carry it." - St. Theresa, November 20, 1972 

TELEVISION / RADIOS
"Modernism must not be a way of life for Our dedicated. Our nuns have to have discipline, My children. Do not bring the world into the convents. I ask that the convents remain free of all television and radios, and return to their prayer life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1990  

FOR  GOOD
"Pastors, you shall be called and shall you stand before, in judgment, the Eternal Father and say that your teaching has been pure in His sight? Better that you fear your God than man! Obedience? Obedience is commanded by the Eternal Father for good, not for evil!" - Our Lady, May 26, 1976  

Directives from Heaven...  https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm 

D35 - Nuns  PDF
D78 - Charity  PDF
D159 - Religious  Orders  and the  Dedicated: Part 1   PDF
D160 - Religious  Orders  and the  Dedicated: Part 2   PDF
D233 - Vocations, Part 1    PDF
D234 - Vocations, Part 2  PDF

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The sources of growth and decline in religious orders
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Pope Pius XI warned religious orders to maintain rigorous discipline
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The new Commandment of Jesus
https://www.tldm.org/News7/Colin1.htm

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Beware of groups forming that have alienated themselves from their hierarchy
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We have dialogued enough! We have experimented enough!
https://www.tldm.org/news7/Timlin.htm 

"What is a priest?" by St. Theresa the Little Flower
https://www.tldm.org/News7/WhatIsAPriest.htm