Francis and Cardinal with Dyed Hair Hate Nuns
In his March 2018 Gaudete et Exsultate (26), Francis offers a caricature of the contemplative life, “It is not healthy to love silence while fleeing interaction with others, to want peace and quiet while avoiding activity, to seek prayer while disdaining service.”
Days later, Cardinal Braz de Aviz – “a focolarino known for his dyed black hair” - and Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo – "known for the financial failure of the Franciscans when he was their General" – wrote Cor orans which De Giacomo calls a “verbose ukase” that is "so ramshackle in its alleged 'juridicality' that it seems exaggerated even for the unhappy season that canon law is going through."
Di Giacomo criticises a “perverse intention” to abolish the autonomy of monasteries, even though cloistered nuns have been free and democratic since the 6th century.
Cor orans wants to subordinate them to a “bureaucratic mechanism” designed to humiliate the weaker ones, depriving them of their savings, dispersing them to other convents while subjecting their properties to speculation, writes Di Giacomo.
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