tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post6194604161117009773..comments2024-03-29T00:16:25.097-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: Manfred Scheuer, Custodian of Decline, Is the New Bishop of LinzTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-6317763524192721222015-12-06T17:27:29.051-08:002015-12-06T17:27:29.051-08:00Thank God for the few holy religious who are bring...Thank God for the few holy religious who are bringing the Faith to the world, carrying out the mission of the Church and saving souls. May God preserve and strengthen them. Lyndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584293537366309430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-4892448555349041642015-12-06T05:47:54.362-08:002015-12-06T05:47:54.362-08:00I have a friend who is a young nun in Rome. She w...I have a friend who is a young nun in Rome. She went to Italy when she found a good Order which still wear the old habits of the 1950's an has not declined tremendously since Vatican II. Never beyond 1,000 members, and mostly all in Italy ( six houses in Spain, 2-3 in France, 1 in England, 2 in Ethiopia, 2 in India and until 1972, 1 in the USA) they have 33 Italian convents, many with schools attached educating the young. My friend is now based in a convent school on the outskirts of Rome(suburbs). She is one of 16 sisters. At the Motherhouse in Rome, a few blocks from the Vatican, this year they received 22 postulants...the most since the early 1960's. Most are young Italian girls. By contrast, the once flourishing and traditional pioneers in communications for the Church, the now habitless Daughters of Saint Paul have 2 postulants in their gigantic Motherhouse nearby.<br />But my point is that the sisters at my friend's Motherhouse, and often from her school, would travel to St. Peter's every Sunday for the Pope's Angelus. In groups of 5-10, they iin their traditional black habits with big white square bibs(collars) made for a colorful sight, and many tourists always wanted to photograph them, because after all....when was it we saw real nuns? But now, most of the sisters have no interest in Pope Francis, his agenda, or what he says. They read about him, like we do, and like all faithful Catholics, are appalled.<br />My friend e-mailed me that fewer and fewer of the native Romans and Italians attend Bergoglio's audiences....it's a lot of tourists and outsiders who don't know him for what he really is, like the Italians do.<br />She told me not ot be surprised if Bergoglio's "Holy Year of mercy", is a flop attendance wise.<br />I hope it is. I am sure it will be.<br />Damian MalliapalliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-49806234132441142132015-12-05T21:26:04.104-08:002015-12-05T21:26:04.104-08:00Pope Francis is liberal and crazy.Pope Francis is liberal and crazy.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00686466300503725349noreply@blogger.com