Cui bono? Every enemy of the Church and especially enclosed religious life, unfortunately.
The Catholic principle of subsidiary ought to have operated. If nuns in one convent have a problem they cannot handle by themselves, a regional superior or neighbouring convents should help them out. Thus (in theory) they are assisted sympatheticall…
Cui bono? Every enemy of the Church and especially enclosed religious life, unfortunately.
The Catholic principle of subsidiary ought to have operated. If nuns in one convent have a problem they cannot handle by themselves, a regional superior or neighbouring convents should help them out. Thus (in theory) they are assisted sympathetically by people who understand and are totally committed to their way of life. If a more remote authority is forced to intervene, the chance of clumsy mishandling multiplies.
I don’t disagree with you, but my main beef with it is that it’s pretty easy for everyone to see what ought to have transpired at any given point in this mess, except for the parties actually involved.
At every inflection point, it’s like they saw the right path to take and turned to run in the opposite direction.
The path that should have ended in Rome has rather circuitously ended somewhere between Timbuktu and the moons of Jupiter.
Cui bono? Every enemy of the Church and especially enclosed religious life, unfortunately.
The Catholic principle of subsidiary ought to have operated. If nuns in one convent have a problem they cannot handle by themselves, a regional superior or neighbouring convents should help them out. Thus (in theory) they are assisted sympathetically by people who understand and are totally committed to their way of life. If a more remote authority is forced to intervene, the chance of clumsy mishandling multiplies.
> a regional superior or neighbouring convents
That would be the role of Carmelite Association of Christ the King, in this case.
I don’t disagree with you, but my main beef with it is that it’s pretty easy for everyone to see what ought to have transpired at any given point in this mess, except for the parties actually involved.
At every inflection point, it’s like they saw the right path to take and turned to run in the opposite direction.
The path that should have ended in Rome has rather circuitously ended somewhere between Timbuktu and the moons of Jupiter.