A late Amtrak train kept me away from the opening of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly Tuesday night, but I am told that Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis gave a warm welcome to the 900 sisters who are at the event.
Archbishop Carlson said he realized the importance of the meeting for LCWR and prayed that the LCWR dialogue with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) would not be politicized, but rather “worked out within a community of faith.”
That question about how LCWR members will respond to the reform of their organization mandated by the CDF is on the minds of everybody here, but that burning issue is the “elephant in the room” that we all know about but nobody is supposed to talk about.
It’s amazing how the sisters can make even a disadvantage sound positive, though: We media folks were specifically told not to approach any LCWR members about the decision, and the members have been told — more than once — not to discuss the topic with the media.
Just to be sure everyone knows who we media are, we were issued bright neon-green name tags with matching ribbons emblazoned with “MEDIA.” (For this former English teacher, the badge reminds me of Hester Prynne’s “Scarlet Letter.”) And, to make us all feel welcome, we were told, we media were asked to stand up and be recognized at the first open session so that LCWR members could thank us for our good work covering their story this year.
The LCWR members, on the other hand, have white name tags that are their tickets into the “executive sessions,” where the CDF mandate will be discussed.
But even the members were warned this afternoon before the first executive session about the need for confidentiality. LCWR's president, Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, told the assembly that the LCWR style was “transparent,” but since this was a “critical moment” for the organization, confidentiality was necessary:
“If in your own conscience you cannot understand or perceive confidentiality as anything other than total transparency, we ask you to think about not coming to the executive sessions, not in the interest of ever excluding anyone, but in creating the kind of environment we need to really discern with each other in freedom and openness.”
In the first open session, the featured speaker, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, was led through the assembly hall at the Millennium Hotel by several sisters who were waving orange scarves draped over their arms.
Once on the stage, the sisters moved in a circle around Hubbard as they raised and lowered the scarves, and the assembly was asked to extend their hands in blessing while singing, “Spirit of vision, Spirit of life! Spirit of courage, be with her now! Wisdom and truth be on her lips!”
Hubbard is an engaging speaker, and she knew how to connect with her audience, though the futurist terminology she used left this journalist reaching for a dictionary to look up “noosphere,” “cosmo genesis,” synergistic convergence” and “Christification.”
Hubbard believes that we are at a critical time in humanity, a “tipping point” that will lead to either breakdown or evolutionary breakthrough. She made vague references throughout her talk to the “crisis” the LCWR was facing, and she encouraged the members by saying that breakthroughs often happen only after chaos or crisis. Furthermore, she proclaimed, the LCWR members were just the kind of people to lead humanity to this breakthrough because of their “evolutionary capacities” that had guided the organization over the past 40 years.
“So, my conclusion is that you are the best seedbed I know for evolving the Church and the world in the 21st century,” Hubbard said.
“Almost all structures are top down,” Hubbard continued, giving the examples of nations, states, organized religions and corporations. “So what is needed today,” she continued, “is a radical reform of existing institutions from their top-down version.”
I might be wrong, but I believe she was talking about that elephant in the room, and, if so, I have to think that is not what Jesus had in mind when he said: “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church.”
Maybe I’ll find out tomorrow, for Hubbard will offer her response to a panel on the topic of “Religious Life in the Future: What Might It Look Like?” with Tom Fox, publisher of National Catholic Reporter; Jamie Manson, a columnist for the Reporter; and Sister Jennifer Gordon of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, who is active in Giving Voice, an organization of younger sisters.
Stay tuned.
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Why choose a generic futurist for your opening (read keynote) speaker? What message does that send? Why not an opening speaker on the Year of Faith? Why not a leading theologian? An expert on mystics? An expert on women saints down through the centuries? This speaker sounds perfect for a public TV pledge drive. You know, for the evening reserved for a Wayne Dyer or Tony Robbins. But to have her open a session for women religious? Where is the quest for holiness?
OK—dancing with scarves and chanting prayers over a futurist speaker? THAT should help dispel all this controversy that the LCWR isn’t adhering to the teachings of Christ and His Church(?!)
ARRGH! Now I’m having some nasty flashbacks to liturgical dances offered during the liturgies at my Catholic High School in the late-70’s (taught by the Sisters of St. Francis)...
Lets see, with whom do I want to cast my lot? A California New Age guru (Ms. Marx Hubbard), or a first century Nazarene New Covenant Rabbi and the Rock He chose upon which to build his Church? I think I’ll stick with The Rock It’s been solid all through the many centuries.
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Beware goddess green
Mother earth’s pagan queen
She’ll recycle man’s faith
Unto doubt.
They will question their existence
Contracept with persistence
If man does not wake…
He’s waked out!
Before dismissing Barbara Marx Hubbard, you might check out Turing Church, and Cosmism.
I appreciate your gentleness…this would have left ME wondering who exactly they worship.
Also, “synergistic convergence” makes “consubstantial” look like plain language.
Ann Carey has the honesty to admit that she didn’t understand the speaker’s message, or Teilhard’s message. The jargon she cites is mostly Teilhard’s, not Hubbard’s. Tom Sofio, Teilhard de Chardin was a mystic, and I can agree that a talk by a Teilhardian expert on his mysticism would be most welcome at a meeting of religious sisters. Instead, the sisters, at this tumultuous moment in their history, wished to communicate to the world what they’re all about. They chose to invite a Teilhardian, to keep the Teilhardian dream alive. It came off well. Mary P., the sisters were “rolling out the red carpet” for their guest—you know, Christian hospitality. What’s wrong with that? Rick Evans, get real. It’s not a choice between Hubbard and Jesus. It’s a dialog between faiths, because the sisters feel a kinship with Hubbard’s message.Teilhard’s message is profoundly christocenter, and is the most compelling apologia for the Catholic faith of the 20th century. The church fumbled the Teilhardian ball. The New Age intercepted. The loss is ours.
The comment I found most disturbing was, “So what is needed today,” she continued, “is a radical reform of existing institutions from their top-down version.” What I hear is that she (and evidently the nuns) wish to turn the Catholic church on its head. The unmitigated ego of this line of thought takes my breath away. Jesus built his church upon the rock of Peter…not the floating orange scarves of some renegade nuns. I can’t pretend to know why this is happening with the nuns, but what it feels like to me is that they have let their egos and imaginations soar away together. So sad. i am praying for the whole situation.
Barbara Marx Hubbard’s official bio and writings are laced with references to de Chardin and a string of philosophers and thinkers who occasionally dip into Catholic theology and biblical theology, using what they need to develop their own visions for humanity. (She aligns herself with Deepak Chopra, etc. as well as some more traditional thinkers any of us may have studied in college)
Therein lies the danger. This is Hubbard’s own self-taught philosophy. It is not fundamentally rooted in Christ’s teachings, and certainly not rooted in Christ’s church, the Catholic Church.
http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/site/bio
Barbara herself admits she left Christianity a long time ago, but embraces that which fits into the development of her own cosmic thinking.
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsletter/BarbMarxHubbardStory.html
There is little here that draws us closer to the God who beget Jesus. It is certainly not Christocentric. It would be easy to come up with a list of profound and engaging “Catholic cosmic” speakers more suited to opening a women’s religious convention than Hubbard.
The words and mission of Jesus and Paul, as well as the work of Fr. T de Chardin ( who used that so-called strange vocabulary!)and numerous other Catholic scholars, even the current Pope, were key elements of Barbara’s talk ...this very unfortunate, incomplete account does not do justice to the presentation given. I encourage you to get the video which will be available and listen to it and judge for yourseles.
Looking up “Turing Church” and Cosmism makes me dismiss Hubbard even more…
“Teilhard’s message is profoundly christocenter, and is the most compelling apologia for the Catholic faith of the 20th century. The church fumbled the Teilhardian ball. The New Age intercepted. The loss is ours”[pitadel on Thursday, Aug 9, 2012 12:24 AM].
“The above-mentioned works abound in such ambiguities and indeed even serious errors, as to offend Catholic doctrine… For this reason, the most eminent and most revered Fathers of the Holy Office exhort all Ordinaries as well as the superiors of Religious institutes, rectors of seminaries and presidents of universities, effectively to protect the minds, particularly of the youth, against the dangers presented by the works of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin and of his followers” [1962 monitum (reprimand) of the Holy Office (predecessaor of CDF) - which it seems remains the Church’s position today].
Take your pick…
It’s sillyness from the sixties. Non-orthodox orders are shrinking & by & large are comprised of elderly sisters.Orthodox orders are younger & growing.I think the process of time will have the last word.
Ann, Why do you cover these events when you seems to be so critical of womwen religious in all your articles? Surely you do not consider yourself an unbiased journalist? You makes it sound like the sisters are plotting against Rome because they have a session that excludes the media. Given you reporting, I think it was a veruy wise decision of LCWR leadership to warn members not to speak with the media. You people are not always the most precise in reporting when it con=mes to interviews! Be honest and admit that you make most things “sensational” just to sell the article. Who wants to get caught in your story? Maybe the greater story for you, Ann, is the reason you missed the opening of the LCWR meeting. Perhaps God intervened with your Amtrak ride! Maybe He didn’t want you there. Have you considered that possibility? Maybe you should contempt possibility that and leave the women religious to be about there business without prejudging them.
Hubbard is either borderline insane, or she is a VERY clever huckster.
Don’t believe me? Do a YouTube search on her name and just listen, like I did, to half an hour or so of total vacuous nonsense she peddles. DO IT! Don’t take my word for it. I’ve got $5 here says you can’t force yourself to sit through a whole 30 minutes.
Listening to her claptrap, I could do nothing but paraphrase a quote from the otherwise forgettable movie, Billy Madison:
“Ms. Hubbard, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
This is EXACTLY how I imagine I may have ‘evolved’ when I was a young, pagan / atheist ‘nature girl,’ searching intensely for ‘god’ in science and nature, and trying intensely to figure out my own place in the Cosmos. I lived in the wilderness of Alaska, and considered myself a ‘wise woman,’ a true ‘child of the universe.’
I later got married and had a son. Then, firmly grounded in the messy and exhausting realities of marriage and family life, I got a very ‘new-agey’ phone call from a long-lost cousin about my deceased mother’s ‘message’ to her (“she’s beautiful, radiant, watching over the baby”... etc.). I never believed in afterlife, but an unknown impulse drew me to attend mass for the first time in my adult life.
I heard the priest say ‘every new Catholic I meet has someone close to them who died.’ I began to read the gospels and eventually believed it all. I attended Midnight Mass, with the Holy Spirit burning so hot in my heart it was like lightning. I said “Lord Jesus, I know you’re there, but Mommy, are you there too?” The answer was a flood of the Spirit washing over me - and I KNEW my mother was alive, and Jesus LIVED in that place.
I knew not one Christian, so I went to the Rectory the day after Christmas. An elderly nun welcomed me and heard my story. She suggested that I look into other faiths. “No, I said, God wants me here. This is where I belong.” She said she never had any experience with the Holy Spirit like this. She suggested I read Theilhard de Chardin, which I did and found it to be nonsense. She reminds me a lot of this lady.
The Holy Spirit has never left me since - and I continue to pour out my life and love upon my parish and family. I pray for humility, and promote the Fatima devotions, Rosary and DM Chaplet, which I have seen bear much fruit.
These nuns are VERY misguided. This is what happens when we search for God on our own terms, without regard to divine revelation. They should turn to Mary, and receive the abundant graces that God wants to give them, but they are so full of their own agenda to see the truth. “Birth, evolution, wise bacteria, etc., what nonsense! Birth comes from sex! Sex belongs in marriage! Eternal life comes from faith in Jesus Christ and the teachings of His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church! Period.
Are these women even Catholic?
@Susan,
I enjoyed reading your story. Sadly the nun you encountered was lost and could not even talk about Jesus. God has blessed you as the Holy Spirit (Third person of the Trinity and not the Hubbard or LCWR gnostic spirit) has led you to encounter the Incarnation, Jesus Christ.
I remember other nuns like this who gave vocation talks to youth without ever speaking the name of Jesus, let alone Mary or consecration. As a seminarian I had to follow up with strong patriarchal, mean-spirited, and reactionary phrases like, “I know that Jesus loves me and I found that in living the Catholic faith, and this love of Christ is overpowering. It became difficult to run from this love.”
I’ve spent my life doing science, and I can confidently tell you that Teilhard de Chardin was a quack as a scientist. He was a prominent figure in the Piltdown man hoax. [Google it if you don’t know what it was.] Do yourself a favor and forget Chardin. You can do better.
Alright, forgive my ignorance.
What the hell is a ‘futurist’?
Embarrassing and pathetic. May the Good Lord either convert them or remove them from any association with Catholics. I do feel sorry for them. I can’t imagine being so far from Christ or what they did to get there.
How very exciting! Maybe there will be a place for Catholicism in the future that actually resembles what Jesus is about.
Posted by Susan Suddjian on Thursday:
“I heard the priest say ‘every new Catholic I meet has someone close to them who died.’”
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I enjoyed reading your post & what the priest said rings true.Perhaps it’s the prayers of deceased loved ones that help to move us towards Christ & His Church.Sometimes the directions come to us in unorthodox ways but the destination is true.God can write truth with crooked lines-or something to that effect.
I find the whole scene disturbing in light of the recent news coming out of LCWR. If you read the comments section of some of the NPR/mainstream secular media about them, you can see the can of apostasy worms they opened in the minds and hearts of people. If these are their fruits, I think we know where they are coming from perfectly well—with or without transparency.
The Church has certainly not condemned Chardin. See http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=363531 for details. I might just add that some of Aquinas’s works were warned against shortly after his death. The warnings were eventually lifted. Sometimes it takes a while for someone approaching Christianity from a new angle to be accepted by the Church.
I attended a seminary college and school of theology from 1978-86. Unfortunately, this concept of the “church” evolving was a persistent theme underlying much of my formation. Fortunately, it has slowly been fading in favor of the “truth” of the authority of the Church under which the gates of hell will not prevail—not in small part due Pope JPII and Benedict XVI and to the influx of the vast majority of present seminarians who will tolerate nothing less. Praise God for so many Sisters in the orders who have and are reclaiming the authentic religious life.
Wow. See know why the LCWR needed the reprimand they got?
The New Age Jabberwocky is alive and well among the sisters.
“The keynote speaker for the annual conference of the LCWR is New Age quack Barbara Marx Hubbard. If you’ve never heard of her, just try to imagine a combination of Deepak Chopra and Ray Kurzweil with an extra helping of crazy. Her big thing is Conscious Evolution, which is the latest repackaging of “est” with an added transhumanist/post-humanist subtext. Here she is on her website explaining Conscious Evolution, which sounds like a combination of X-Men comics, techno-fetishizing, narcissism, New Age nonsense, paganism, trite bromides, bad grammar, Gnosticism, and good old heresy. (Emphasis added.)
From: http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/2011/08/barbara-marx-hubbard-another-scary.html
“Barbara Marx Hubbard. She is the mother of all Luciferian futurists, and is one of the destructive forces working toward ushering in the end time world government. Her futuristic ideas coincide with the martyrdom and persecution in the Book of Revelation.
Hubbard has been noted as saying:
“The choice is: Do you wish to become a natural Christ, a universal human, or do you wish to die? People will either change or die. That is the choice.” Ralph Epperson, New World Order
In another quote, she says:
“We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.”
If that doesn’t quite convey what she wants, try this one:
“We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the Pale Horse, death…We do this for the sake of the world.”
Why not open the conference with confession and the Holy sacrifice of the Mass, Archbishops? Anyone?...
Sheesh…that was an OPEN session? What a lack of self awareness, hoo boy. Reaallly makes a guy wonder what threshold of weirdness actually did trip their self awareness with the desire to close some sessions.
This patently uncharitable,I know, but the photo & description of the scarf-ceremony/ritual thing made me think of the scene in Macbeth with the three “weird” sisters.Just sayng…
So, basically, a gnostic, eugenics-supporter was invited to address the sisters, who payed her homage on the stage. Hmmm… Methinks that these leading siters have excommunicated themselves “aeons” ago.
If the “sisters” wore habbits, there would be no need for alternative ways of distingushing them. Therein lies just one of the problems. I am sick and tired of these old hippie “sisters” and their kum ba ya goings-on. two generations of Catholic kids have not been properly instructed in the Catholic faith because these “sisters” were too busy involving themselves in left-wing politics.
Respectfully, I belive this quotation from Sister Farrell is inaccurate.
“If in your own conscience you cannot understand or perceive confidentiality as anything other than total transparency, we ask blah blah blah”
I understand that the LCWR Board wants to control the message, avoid PR disasters, and pretend everyone is on board and lovey-dovey.
But confidentially is total transparency? No sane person could say that.
@ Fr. Eric, thank you for your words. Our new priest is very young, very masculine and very orthodox. He gives us ‘homework’ when we attend daily mass, and expects us to do it. Every ‘hello,’ is followed with a loud “PRAY FOR ME!” He prefers adult male servers and greets our Rosary group with a warm hug. We have only had him for two weeks, but have already fallen in love with him. Daily mass has nearly 100 people attending each day, and growing, and he starts with Gregorian Chant playing softly 45 minutes before mass!
You just keep on being that mean ol’ patriarchal priest - keep up with the “I know that Jesus loves me and I found that in living the Catholic faith, and this love of Christ is overpowering. It became difficult to run from this love.” (Scandalous!)
Prayers for you, God bless Fr. Eric and Fr. Wayne!
The fact that Ms. Carey needed her dictionary to understand words that have been current since the late 50’s shows how incompetent she is to judge and report what is going on here. She also needs to understand that this was in part, a “family concil” to which she had no right to expect admission. Her pouting and grousing about it is unbecoming.
“If in your own conscience you cannot understand or perceive confidentiality as anything other than total transparency, we ask you to think about not coming to the executive sessions, not in the interest of ever excluding anyone, but in creating the kind of environment we need to really discern with each other in freedom and openness.”
Tammie Lee, to help you understand Sr. Pat’s reasonable request of the Sisters, may I offer the following comparison: Suppose you and your friend came to me for help in dealing with a very difficult situation that you were experiencing in some relationship that was important to you. Wouldn’t you expect that your friend and I would hold in total confidence what was said in our session? Or would you be perfectly OK if your friend or I went out and told your curious family members or friends or strangers everything you said? Wouldn’t you want us all to maintain confidentiality and not be totally transparent with outsiders about what you expressed? And if you knew one of us was not going to maintain confidentiality outside this group, wouldn’t you feel inhibited and less free to express yourself honestly and openly in our session? And if your friend or I felt we had to reveal all (be transparent) to everyone outside our group, wouldn’t you feel justified in cancelling our session together or asking her to not come again with you?
One of the reasons The Church condemns Freemasonry is secrecy. Conform to the teaching of LCWR or The Catholic Church? I thought transparency and confidentiality were antonyms. Somebody is teaching good is evil and evil is good. It makes me sick that so many “nuns” belong to this anti-Catholic organization. Sorry to disgrace the word “nun”. Used to be a nun or sister’s word was a true as a Priest’s. Many years ago someone testified that Communists planned to destroy The Church from within.
All nuns attending should have left their habits by the door on the way out. They are Catholic in name only.
Why are these ‘sisters’ even allowed to continue this farce? Kick them out and take away their pensions. Is there even one Catholic speaker on the agenda besides the Archbishop? They want transparency? God is not mocked and he sees and hears everything. I doubt St Peter will be waving an orange scarf when these gals get to the pearly gates. (which, by the looks of them, can’t be that far off)
But Dee Cee, this wasn’t closed session. This was an open session with the media invited. You can’t invite the media and then put a bridle in their mouth in the name of “confidentiality.”
If the sisters wanted to have sensitive discussions without everybody weighing their words for fear they would be misquoted by hovering media, they can have private sessions. But they didn’t, they let it all hang out, to use a phrase I bet they think is “hep.”
Nobody kid themselves over there: they aren’t fascinating and vital “senior sources in the White House.” They are a representative sampling of the leadership group of the LCWR, and as such are not even a good sample of the entire set of religious sisters they allegedly lead. Very few secular media are going to do anything more than get a story out of the session to which they were invited and leave. Research? Even snooping? Doubt it.
No need for a dictionary . . . noosphere, cosmogenesis. This is warmed over Teilhard de Chardin. Futurism means back to the 60s.
I have reached my tolerance limit for the condescension (as I perceive it) from all of the new age catholics - under the leadership of the arrogant LCWR. Who in the world are they to decide that the church needs to change for them? NO! They need to change or leave. The Holy Spirit has never left the church. They need to shape up or ship out - their choice.
Words cannot express how absolutely mortified I am as a Catholic by this little leadership conference.
LCWR: At least have the integrity, honesty, and dignity to stop pretending you are what you are not.
I am constantly amazed at the lack of charity on the part of those who speak for “Truth” and “Faith”—including priests and brothers here.
These sisters at whom you sneer have Faith and Hope and CHARITY to boot. I am sorry that THE NAT CATH REGISTER legitimizes a display such as this.
IF this is how members of our Church treat each other no wonder the world cannot live in peace.
I am, admittedly, taking your bait and sinking lower - but, tell me - do you have the same negative judgment for 99% of the commenters over at the Nat Cat Reporter? There you will have your fill of uncharitable sneering, name-calling and disrespect for those who do not agree with their agenda - which (in my legitimate opinion)is to re-make God and the church into their own image and likeness. The worst commenter regularly refers to Pope Benedict XVI as “Benny” - and they publish it.
What makes this such a devastating issue for all of us is that we have all had family members lose their faith, and the blessings of the sacraments, after exposure to these sisters in their schools.
@E.R. Clery,
“These sisters at whom you sneer have Faith and Hope and CHARITY to boot.”
It is not their charity that’s questionable but their theology. With what they apparently believe in now, they could effortlessly move from the Catholic Church to Amnesty International. Why do they need to call themselves Catholics?
“Give them enough rope…....” is the sad adage that comes to mind here. Sr Pat has done religious life such a disfavour and now all the world can see the shallowness (or deep disregard) of true Catholicism in the LCWR.
No wonder Catholic Schooling has been such a failure over the past couple of generations with such as these forming lay teachers.
I would still like to know if the LCWR had Mass on any day of their Assembly.
Can there be any doubt whatsoever that the Vatican’s concern for this group is well deserved? This is nothing but silliness! To defend these nuns simply because of their good works is missing the point. Their Catholicity is highly questionable, and that’s the reason for their secrecy.
This is from Hubbard’s webpage: “We can and are actually moving beyond the creature human condition toward a new species, a universal humanity, capable of coevolving with nature.” Does this sound at all that it should be part of a Catholic conference of women religious? Sisters, wake up!
I’m not sure any of us have certainly in what God’s plans are for the future. What I do know is I knew nuns in the seventies struggling with the new directives - one could call it criticisms for not being with the times. These nuns were uncomfortable to change what they had signed up for but were gamely going ahead as best they understood the directive. Now they are being criticize at where their journey has taken them. And why are the nuns blamed for the perceived failure in how young minds see the faith? Isn’t this the family’s obligation? When I was in Catechism in the forties I had lay volunteer teachers - our parents. When my child was preparing for her first communion in the nineties she had lay volunteer teachers - us parents. I think we all need to step back and take some deep breaths and pray to Our Father “Your will be done” and to Mary “Pray for us sinners’ and do our best in the meantime. An adage I heard recently and not from a nun but a Swedenbogian - something to the effect if your speak say only what is true, kind and necessary. I felt this was necessary. I did my best to be kind. It is the truth as I see it. Jesus said the greatest commandment is to Love God with your whole heart and soul and your neighbor as yourself. Would that we followers are known by our love.
Amazing how simple it can be to communicate with people and have them understand a certain topic, you made my day.
The LCWR “social justice” sisters who embrace new-age goofiness, support abortion, same-sex marriage, inclusive language and oppose the all-male priesthood have an option that will fit them to a tee: convert to Episcopalianism!
I loved the quote Mike in KC posted:
“Ms. Hubbard, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/ann-carey/futurist-addresses-lcwr-assembly-on-day-1#ixzz24PFvTl7E
There is no reasonable response possible to the line of thinking this group has put forth. Those of us old enough to remember the “age of Aquarius” can state with certainty this is not the future—and we can thank the good Lord for that!
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