Today I submitted the following article to NewswithViews.com for publication. I have made an executive decision to give my own blogspot participants the first look. LCWR, "Leadership Conference of Women Religious" was featured as a victim of "persecution" by a "new inquisition" on this past Sunday night's 60 Minutes. Let me know what you think. I am particularly interested in Susanne's always relevant opinions on subjects involving Catholic issues.
Stay tuned,
CONSTANCE
60 MINUTES, LCWR, OR SHOULD IT BE "LITTLE SISTERS OF THE NEW WORLD RELIGION"?
This immediate past Sunday,
St. Patrick's Day, 2013, CBS' 60 MINUTES (Sixty Minutes) presented a portrayal of American Nuns,
or at least those represented by the LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women
Religious) as allegedly 'persecuted' victims of a new Catholic Church "Inquisition”.
It featured LCWR President Pat Farrell talking plaintively with
correspondent Scott Pelley. The American nuns were being
"persecuted" for alleged lack of religious orthodoxy. The
Vatican office "persecuting" them was one and the same, under a
changed name as "The Inquisition" ("Supreme Congregation of the
Roman and Universal Inquisition). In 1904 the name was changed to
the "Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office" for the Doctrine
of the Faith . The present name of the office charged with maintaining
religious fidelity in the Roman Catholic Church is the "Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith (Congregatio
pro Doctrina Fidel).[1]
A new inquisition?
Well, since nobody I know particularly wants that old medieval bloody
spectacle, I thought I would look into it. What I discovered was
something particularly different. If anything ever justified an
"inquisition," apart from the extreme teachings of excommunicated
Catholic priest Matthew Fox, this scene just might.
What is the LCWR and just
what do they stand for?
"LCWR" is the
acronym for Leadership Conference of Women Religious." [2] It
purports to represent Catholic women religious, e.g. Sisters or nuns of various
religious orders. Its president appeared on that 60 Minutes program this
past Sunday, March 17, 2013. I suspect Saint Patrick himself would have
cried in dismay at what was said there on his feast day.
The nuns were, per Farrell
and Scott Pelley "persecuted" e.g. criticized and asked to reform,
because of their alleged lack of religious orthodoxy. Just what was this lack of alleged religious
orthodoxy? Was it failing to say rosaries? No! Was it for
eating steak on Lenten Fridays? No!
It was instead for their
blatant radical feminist as well as New Age agenda and theologies. It was for having openly New Age leader
Barbara Marx Hubbard as their 2012 Convention speaker telling all that
"God is not 3 Guys in the Sky". The theme of that convention
was “MYSTERY UNFOLDING: LEADING IN
THE EVOLUTIONARY NOW.” It was further
for taking Barbara Marx Hubbard as a religious mentor, indeed as the keynote
speaker for the 2012 St. Louis, Missouri convention. You can watch
segments for yourself by going to this link. I suggest you use an
appropriate saving program and/or your video camera to record it. I
suspect it might rapidly disappear upon the publication and dissemination of
this article.
This deviation from religious
orthodoxy was indeed deep and fundamental. It was truly not orthodox Roman
Catholicism, but instead was a form of promotion of a New World Religion. Under Pope John Paul II, the Roman Catholic
Church took official stands against New Age religion as utterly incompatible
with Christianity. Pope John Paul
II made his first public pronouncement
against it to American bishops meeting at the Vatican in June 1993. Official provisional Vatican documents
warning against it were released against in in 2003. Here is a link to reading JESUS CHRIST THEBEARER OF THE WATER OF LIFE: A CHRISTIAN REFLECTION ON THE “NEW AGE” I
I'll say this for that
bunch. They never quit. This reminds me of an earlier equally
disgraceful 1985 event in St. Louis, Missouri. That was the April 8-11, 1985 NCEA Convention
(National Catholic Education Association). Prominent New Age
activists starred and ran that convention under the blessings of its then
president, also a nun. The theme that year was "Catholic Schools:
Sharing Vision, Teaching Values." The “vision” they were
sharing and the values they were teaching were distinctly New Age ones. They came in no small part from Lucis Trust
itself. For the benefit of the "uninitiated" Lucis Trust
started life under its founders Alice and Foster Bailey as Lucifer Publishing
Company. I have three books in my personal library under that Lucifer
Publishing imprint. Robert Muller, one of its activist members also
serving opportunely as the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations in
charge of 37 agencies, including but not limited to UNESCO was the keynote speaker
for that convention. Global Education Associates (founded and headed by
Gerald and Patricia Mische) conducted workshops openly praising and
recommending Lucis Trust books and sources. New Age writer Robert
Theobald presented workshops.
I was asked to come to that
convention by now deceased Elaine Beckers-Braun, a Kansas City early supporter
of my expository work against the New Age Movement. She bought an airline
ticket, paid my entry fees and arranged for my presence at that event. Early in the morning of my first day there,
still nursing a headache, I was awakened by Elaine grumbling that they needed a
"Resolution." She then said, “there's a typewriter.” I mumbled back, “that's a nice typewriter.” Elaine barked,”get up and start writing. I did. Elaine had it typeset, published
and circulated while I was away later that afternoon doing a radio interview.
When I returned, people were clutching their sides and laughing.
The conference organizers were not laughing. They were distinctly embarrassed. The resolution circulators were threatened
with unexecuted threats for convention expulsion and even arrest. The
conservative Catholic paper THE WANDERER made it their feature story for
the next week. Needless to say, the 1986 convention was relatively
"toned down" at least from an overt New Age sense. If you would
like your personal copy of that Resolution which I recently found and scanned
to disk, email me at cumbey@gmail.com with the subject line "1985 NCEA
Resolution." I'll email it back to you as a .pdf attachment.
Well, the same Catholic with
a very small “c” New Agers are emboldened and they are back. It is
amazing how many of the same old players are in the game. Now they are
"much longer in the tooth" and angry at their nearly 30 year delay of
their plans for inaugurating their "New World Religion" with its
"New Christ" for "the New Age." As before they are
attempting to use the Roman Catholic Church as well as evangelical subverts and
cohorts to do their business.
The LCWR has been greatly used by its NewAge factions.
Barbara Marx Hubbard was the lead speaker for the 2012 Convention.
You can view the photograph montage video for yourself by visiting the
LCWR website https://lcwr.org/assembly. That will give you an option to go to this link: . A handy "tinyurl" address is http://tinyurl.com/cmbj9bj.
As these and the other New Age fellow travelers play a delightful little game
of "Now you see us, now you don't," I recommend you save it or
video-photograph it for yourself. For only $50 you may order the actual
DVD of Barbara Marx Hubbard's entire LCWR presentation. Of course, the
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is FREE and definitely a much better bargain
than the LCWR spectacle.
Keynoter Barbara Marx Hubbard
tells these theologically renegade nuns "you are the best seed bed for
evolving the Church and the world in the 21st Century."
I'm happy I've had the
privilege of meeting so very many fine Cathoic nuns who definitely do not share
their opinions and would recoil at the prospect of Barbara Marx Hubbard
advocating at their meetings.
I note for the record, as I
did in my past NewswithViews series that Barbara Marx Hubbard performed similar
“honors” for a conference held with Evangelical leaders at Gold Lake, Colorado
on October 23-26, 1987. She co-chaired
that meeting with none other than Doug Coe.
The event was underwritten by Fellowship Founder core group member Paul
N. Temple, his daughter and his son in law. Paul
Temple is also known as the co-Founder and President Emeritus of the
decidedly New Age “Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).The theme of that meeting was “Bridging through Christ.” I note cynically that they failed to tell the
Christian participants, “which 'Christ”.
You may review that equally sorry situation by visiting my old NewswithViews archives on “The Hi-Jacking of Evangelicalism.”
Well, since 60 Minutes raised the subject of
"Inquisition," I thought we might explore what Barbara Marx Hubbard
whom they sponsored and endorsed had in mind as inquisition punishments for
those not accepting her own "New Gospel." Selected passages
definitely read in context from her book THE BOOK OF CO-CREATION, THE BOOK
OF REVELATION are telling. First of
all, the old serpentine lie of thumb your nose at God and thou shalt be as gods
is presented:
Believers in your potential to be me, listen now. You have nothing to fear. Eternal life is already yours. An irreversible process has begun in you which can no more be turned off than the mechanism of puberty. You will go the whole way to become co-creative. You may be killed, but you shall not die. You shall be resurrected, as I was . If you are called upon to suffer and die during the tribulations, you must keep in mind at all times that the suffering of the present cannot compare with the glory which shall be revealed in you. Yours the glory, yours the power, O believers in your potential to be Christ-like humans.[3]
She (and the obvious demons speaking through her) project
a very unpleasant fate for those who do not accept that very newest version of
their peculiar version of Revelation:
Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend with all their heart, mind and spirit. One -fourth is ready to so choose, given the example of one other who has made the commitment. One-fourth is resistant to election . They are unattracted by life ever-evolving . Their higher self is unable to penetrate the density of their mammalian senses. They cannot be reached. They do not ask ...yet they are good . They go about their business, eating, sleeping, reproducing and dying . They are full-fledged animal/humans. One-fourth is destructive. They are born angry with God. They hate themselves. They project this hatred onto the world . They are defective seeds.
There have always been defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a "natural death." Their bodies were recycled to new life, and their souls reincarnated in bodies capable of receiving signals from the higher self.
Well, in the past we
"one-fourth defective seeds" were permitted to die a "natural
death." Not so in their "New Age" projected future.
Read on:
Now as we approach the quantum shift from creature-human to co-creative human . . . the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. We have no choice, dearly beloveds. It is a case of the destruction of the whole planet, or the elimination of the ego-driven, godless one-fourth who, at this time of planetary birth, can, if allowed to live on to reproduce their defective disconnection, destroy forever the opportunity of Homo sapiens to become Homo universalis, heirs of God . . . Before this stage of power can be inherited by the God-centered members of the social body, the self-centered members must be destroyed. There is no alternative. Only the God-centered can evolve. Only the good endures. [4]
Why are they doing it (killing us 'defective seeds, i.e.
those not accepting their theological babbling)? Why for the 'sake of the
world, of course. Read on:
We come to bring death to those who are unable to know God. We do this for the sake of the world.
Well, now if executed as promised, that's the
real Inquisition. A bloody one at that!
Maybe the good sisters of
the LCWR didn't know what Barbara Marx Hubbard really stood for. Maybe
they, the educational elite of the various religious orders were merely guilty
of sloppy scholarship. Is that what Catholic parents really want as
education for their children? I suspect not!
Cardinal Levada, Pope
Benedict's successor as head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith,
himself theologically liberal enough to sponsor and endorse United Religions unsuccessfully remonstrated with these
renegade nuns over their theology. If it was bad enough to shock Cardinal
Levada, it was bad indeed! Levada threatened in his correspondence with
LCWR to have it de-certified as a Catholic organization. Plans were allegedly discussed to create and
authorize a new organization more representative of traditional Catholic Church
theological views than this organization, even radical by Cardinal Levada's
relatively relaxed standards. For
more information on “United Religions Initiative, read Lee Penn's excellent
book, FALSE
DAWN.
Well, if the LCWR women
'religious' win this battle, they might consider a new name more indicative of
their own new "evolutionary theology." I respectfully suggest
this: “THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE NEW WORLD RELIGION."
The "persecuted
nuns" of the LCWR had as their 2012 convention theme: "Mystery
Unfolding: Leading in the Evolutionary Now." They may well
want to consider instead, the old discarded Scriptural definition of
"Mystery" which is closer to the Revelation 17th definition of
"Mystery Babylon" which corrupted the entire world -- the original
serpentine mysteries which Barbara Marx Hubbard glorifies in her book THE
HUNGER OF EVE. Those mysteries are the original two lies of the Serpent
to Eve about those willingly in disobedience to God: (1) Thou shalt not
surely die; and (2) Thou shalt be as gods.
As for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord. I'll bet that many
more Catholic sisters than the nuns LCWR purports to represent feel that way
too! I pray they do!
[1] Source Wikipedia
article "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" March 21, 2013.
[2] Source https://lcwr.org
[3] Source page 16,
Barbara Marx Hubbard REVELATION - THE
ALTERNATIVE TO ARMAGEDON. 1983 "PRE-PUBLICATION MANUSCRIPT
EDITION"
[4] Hubbard, ibid, page 59.
