--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have mentioned many faults in the Church. Since it is made up > humans, there will be many faults that should corrected. > > As far as the nuns are concerned, it appears that the Vatican may > have tried to reconcile with them to stay in the fold. But the > nuns would not give an inch. Hence, the Vatican had to act with > its final authority.
Uh, so did the Inquisition. It was invented to deal with "heresy," too. Soon afterwards, the Church's "final authority" exter- minated a quarter of a million fellow Christians because they didn't believe exactly the things they were told to believe. The Office of the Holy Inquistion lasted for 600 years! It was only eliminated from the Catholic Church in the 1950s. But it's back. And guess who *brought* it back? The current Pope, before he became Pope. He was the one who felt that the Church *needed* an Inquisition. I don't care who the person up in Canada is who claims to be Mary or how much of a cult it might be or how much they have the knickers of the Pope and the higher-ups of the Church in a twist -- I say good for the nuns for refusing to cave in to pressure from spiritual bullies. Spiritual organizations that claim that there is one and only one correct set of things to believe in have IMO missed the whole *point* that is often discussed here -- people are individuals, with individual needs and individual paths. Not recog- nizing that is a *failing* -- a minus, not a plus. The Church *failed* these nuns by not being able to allow them their individual beliefs while still being considered a part of the Church. IMO, *any* spiritual organization that allows "excommunication" is broadcasting its own limit- ations and its own fears. Excommunicating these nuns is the equivalent of banning TM teachers from the domes and from courses because they dared to see another spiritual teacher, even if they did it just out of curiosity. It's behavior based on FEAR, not light. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > <babajii_99@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > Here's an interesting article: > > > > > > 6 Ark. nuns excommunicated for heresy By ANDREW DeMILLO, > Associated > > > Press Writer > > > 2 hours, 16 minutes ago > > > > Excommunication is such a joke: to Jesus that is... > > Who would Jesus excommunicate? No one! > > The Church is not Jesus, and Jesus is not the church. > > The Church is part and parcel of the Roman Empire. > > It's icons, symbols, statues, subjugation of women, persecution of > the > > Jews, the disrespect of other religions (not to mention the death > and > > destruction the church has caused, since it's origin) > > The child molestation, perversion of the priests, all make the > Church > > a very dangerous, ilrelevant and ignorant entity. > > >
