These Last Days News - December 14, 2018
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8-3. US Bishop Appoints ‘Woman Feminist’ to Lead Parish...
"Already We hear you clamor for the ordination of woman. No woman shall stand in My House to represent Me! How dare you bring in this heresy to My House! I shall go among you and I shall sling you out from My temples!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, December 27, 1975
Veronica reads the following:
"The conduct of women during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass shall be one of silence. No woman shall speak out during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.[1] Women must wear head coverings when they enter the House of God.[2] The House of God is a place of prayer, and not a meeting place or dance hall. No woman shall speak from the pulpit. No woman shall enter the ministry."[3]
December 7, 1976 [1]1 Cor 14:34-35; [2] 1 Cor 11:5-10; [3] 1 Tim 2:9-15.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on December 13, 2018:
by Lisa Bourne
Bridgeport, Connecticut Bishop Frank Caggiano has appointed a left-leaning feminist laywoman to lead a parish rather than appointing a priest as pastor.
Dr. Eleanor W. Sauers will assume the role of “parish life coordinator” of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Fairfield, effective January 1 of next year.
She will have “decision-making authority in the parish” and “oversee the day-to-day operations of the parish” as she has done the last several months.
“Her responsibilities, as it is with any priest or deacon appointed as Administrator, is to work with the parish community to develop and foster its pastoral vision and mission,” Caggiano told parishioners in a December 9 letter announcing “a new leadership model” at the parish.
Sauers will work with a team of priests who will provide the sacraments at St. Anthony.
Sauers’ appointment comes nine months after the death of the parish’s pastor Father John Baran, and also after “a great deal of time in prayer and discernment,” Caggiano said.
Caggiano, who was one of the first U.S. bishops to reinstate the St. Michael Prayer in his diocese in response to the Church’s sex abuse scandal, was a delegate at the recently concluded Youth Synod, where some have said the role of women in the Church was used to advance feminism in the Church.
He has been floated as a possible successor to Washington, D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
Caggiano said of Sauers in the letter, “Her education, formation, and experience make her professionally, academically, and spiritually ready for this role.”
Sauers, who has a Doctorate in Philosophy from Jesuit-run Fordham University, has written in favor of reducing the role of the pastor, taken part in a dissident-presented event on women in the Church, and worked to transform a parish where she was employed from being tradition-minded to modernist.
The latter experience was the basis for her dissertation, in which she wrote that she hopes that “feminist sensibilities can be integrated into the Catholic tradition.”
Caggiano told parishioners that having a parish life coordinator is supported in canon law. And while it’s the first time for a laywoman in his diocese, he said, there is precedent in other U.S. dioceses.
“My decision to ask Eleanor to take on this model of ministry, the first of its kind for a lay woman in this Diocese, is based on several factors,” he said. Aside from this having been done in other places, Caggiano listed his reasons for appointing Sauers as “the uniqueness of this parish community,” and his “deep appreciation for the work that Eleanor has already done” in the Bridgeport diocese.
“We are at a very particular moment in the history of our Diocese, and indeed, within our Church,” Caggiano said, continuing on that it had “become apparent to me that many lay women and men are seeking new ways to serve their parishes, and, in collaboration with the clergy, to create vibrant and thriving communities.”
While Caggiano did not cite the priest shortage in the Catholic Church among his reasons for appointing Sauers, varying alternatives to fostering vocations have been put forth in response to the shortage along with lay leadership in parishes, such asmarried priesthood and women’s “ordination.”
The appointment and new leadership model was covered in a report from Church Militant (CM), which noted the similarity to a plan for “priestless parishes” proposed by the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP), a dissident priest organization.
The CM report then extensively detailed various aspects of Sauer’s background illustrating her apparent liberal feminist mindset.
She wrote a book review in 2017 in which she applauded the thought of reducing the role of the pastor while instituting a “shared leadership.”
Shortly thereafter, Sauers participated in an event called “A Woman’s Place is in the Church,” presented by Voice of the Faithful. The group advocates change in the Catholic Church’s governance, and was censured by then-Bridgeport Bishop William Lori in 2002, and also by Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron in 2011.
Sauers exhibits like-mindedness with the political left, the CM report says, “liking” the Facebook pages of socialist Bernie Sanders, pro-abortion Elizabeth Warren, and homosexuality-affirming Jesuit Fr. James Martin.
In 2002, she followed Fr. Baran to St. Anthony from his previous parish assignment. Baran made her director of religious education a few months after.
Sauers would write about her experience “transforming” St. Anthony of Padua Parish in her doctoral thesis, “St. Anthony of Padua Parish: A Case Study of the Transformation of a Roman Catholic Parish.”
The dissertation is contemptuous in its description of the parish’s life before 2002, the CM report says. Sauers termed it “simple,” “child like,” “clericalist,” “authoritarian,” “didactic,” “pre-critical,” “exclusivist,” “dualistic,” “rigid,” and “harsh.”
She had also recoiled at previous pastors’ reluctance to permit Holy Communion in the hand, lay people distributing Holy Communion, or female lectors.
“The parish presented itself to the world as an anachronism, a throwback to its earlier incarnation,” Sauers wrote, “out of step with the times, and with the greater church. Instead of opening the windows to a consideration of the roles of human experience, critical thinking, and dialogue in the life of faith, the doors were closed firmly against anything that might threaten the certainty of the Truth that was assumed to be self-evident.”
She identified herself as a “white, middle class, Roman Catholic woman feminist,” in the paper, and indicated a desire to instill feminist ideologies in parish life via leadership of selected members of the parish council.
“It is the assertion of the researcher (Sauers) that employing feminist thought can assist in creating environments within which contemporary Roman Catholics are able to find meaning and sustenance as they navigate their personal and communal lives,” she wrote.
Sauers also compared herself and two parish leadership partners to the Holy Trinity in the thesis, CM says, and cited feminist theologian Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, whose writing has been rebuked by the U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine Committee, and Vatican-rebuked Sr. Margaret Farley.
In addition to a display of ambition for authority, the report says, Sauers writes with scorn in her paper about the Catholic traditions of Eucharistic adoration, the Fatima novena, and other regular Catholic practices.
“Already We hear you clamor for the ordination of woman. No woman shall stand in My House to represent Me! How dare you bring in this heresy to My House! I shall go among you and I shall sling you out from My temples!”
The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, December 27, 1975
Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith. But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.
- 1 Cor 14:34-35
But every woman praying or prophesying (teaching) with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head. The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the man. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels.
- 1 Cor 11:5-10
In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed; then Eve. And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression. Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
- 1 Tim 2:9-15
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.... To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion (authority) over thee. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
- Gen 3:12-13, 3:16-19
St. Paul - "Listen, My child, how satan has corrupted the word."
Veronica - And now he's becoming quite angry and pointing, jabbing with his finger the Book, and saying:
St. Paul - "Observe: Women shall be meek in the presence of their husbands. We hear the call of 'liberation'! Whom shall woman be liberated to but satan!
"A man, as a figure of the Christ, my child, shall be the head of his household. So it is from the Lord.
"A woman shall adorn herself not in pearls and braided hair, but in goodness and piety and good example to her children. A woman will not expose her body as a pagan. What manner of example has she given to her children? Woe to the parent who brings scandal to her children!
"Woman, remove your arrogance! You are searching in darkness. As a sign of reverence, you will cover your head. It is not that I call it custom, My children; it is that the angels demand this in the presence of the Sacrifice, Mass!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
St. Paul, March 22, 1975
"You will remove woman from My Church, as leaders and rulers. Of what? What manner of foul action do you promote?
"In the beginning I gave to you, through your prophets, the establishment of My Church upon earth. The rules were simple but now have become changed and defiled to please the carnal nature of mankind. You must restore the holiness to My House! You must bend your knees in humility and penance."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, December 31, 1975
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