«Rebel Hearts» (2021)

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Rebel Hearts (2021)
"A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today."
🧲 link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5e86f29c68d4261b4bcb61947a8d9732f8003557

Cdl. Francis McIntyre, Los Angeles bishop 1948-1970, was part of the Cœtus Internationalis Patrum. He supported Latin and thought vernacular would lead to a change in doctrine, lex orandi, lex credendi (Mattei 2013, pt. 3 ch. 8 b. "The question about Latin").

Immaculate Heart reminds me of the rebellious, unenclosed women that Innocent III commissioned St. Dominic to reform in the S. Sisto Vecchio convent in Rome. (Mother Drane, O.P., ch. 14)

Mary Corita, I.H.M., reminds me of the San Franciscan Beatnik lay Dominican brother Br. Antoninus Everson, who became Modernist and left the order, but for a reason you wouldn't expect (Thompson, O.P., ch. 6, §"The Turmoil Of The Sixties"):

One of the reasons I had been dissatisfied with the Order was Vatican II's emphasis on Orders shifting over from the contemplative to social action. This meant that monasteries were being penetrated with a different spirit.

One Modernist nun in Rebel Hearts said: "The proposal of marriage and so forth did not appeal to me that much." That's not a healthy attitude; these are healthy:
a Benedictine on her vocation (A Seal Upon My Heart: Autobiographies of Twenty Sisters, pp. 119,22, PDF pp. 137,40):

Much as marriage appealed to me, much as I enjoyed the company of boys, I knew I didn't really love the fellows who had ring ideas. ... For a while I thought a husband was the answer. God would bless a wife who chose to do her husband's will.

a Sister of Mercy on her vocation (p. 85, PDF p. 103):

Sometimes I considered marriage and a family. But these intervals were short. In hours of prayer and quiet reflection my big discovery would rush in upon me and overwhelm me. To be a sister was to be a bride of Jesus, to exchange nuptial vows with Him, to enjoy His special affection in this world, and to follow Him in heaven with a song that only virgins sing. [cf. Apoc. 14:3-4]

About 80 min. into Rebel Hearts, the ex-nuns discuss how they coped financially after the lifting of their vows. Not very well! The futility of anti-patriarchy matriarchy.

[Geremia]

See the 1999 article in Culture Wars: "Carl Rogers and the IHM Nuns: Sensitivity Training, Psychological Warfare and the 'Catholic Problem'" by E. Michael Jones.

[justjeff]

Thanks for those links & accompanying info.

"Rebel Hearts (2021)
"A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today."
🧲 link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5e86f29c68d4261b4bcb61947a8d9732f8003557
Watch here."

Unfortunately that last link no longer seems to work, and I'm not sure how to use magnet links.

I did see the trailer though, and it reminds me of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Louis, MO. They had adverstised an LGBTQ+ event at their convent a couple of years or so ago and I went with some friends to stand on the sidewalk outside their facilities to pray a rosary before the event. We began praying on both sides of the driveway entering into their parking lot, praying out loud. Someone had brought a karaoke type speaker with a microphone and a priest was leading the prayers.

A woman came out while we were praying and wanted to know what we were doing there. She identified herself as the head of the order. The priest spoke with her for a bit saying that we were praying for God's mercy and protection, and that we felt that they were not teaching the fulness of the truth as taught by the magisterium of the Catholic Church, and therefore some people might be misled and souls could be lost.

There was some back and forth, but she agreed to let us continue to pray... of course, she didn't have much choice, given that we were on the easement of the street, on the sidewalk, and she had no authority to force us to leave. She did have her security guy there keeping an eye on us, and she did dialogue a bit more, trying to be gentle & said that she was happy that we were praying the rosary, but letting us know she disagreed with us and would prefer that we prayed elsewhere. A couple of people had signs, though I don't remember what they said. The people pulling into the lot for the event ignored us for the most part, but seemed a bit surprised & perhaps irritated in some cases.

When it got to be about 15 minutes before the start of the event, a friend of mine, his wife and I, decided to go in and see what they were going to say. I think the security guy went in to warn them that we were coming, but maybe the lady at the registration table had seen us praying at the street. In any event she told us that we couldn't come in. I reminded her that it was a public event, advertized throughout the archdiocese but she indicated that she was afraid we might cause trouble. I assured her that we would cause no trouble, we were just there to observe. She sent someone in to get the head nun who had come out to visit us at the street. She was emphatic that we were not welcome. No way... we had to leave.

So much for the "inclusion" and "accompaniment" that they proclaimed was needed in the Church, I guess.

Sadly, shortly after this experience I saw in the news that a local all girls high school that was having financial difficulty was being taken over by these nuns.

Heaven help us all.

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I'm not sure how to use magnet links.

Use a torrent program like qBittorrent.