Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.
The Rev. J. Gaston Hebert, the diocese administrator, said he notified the nuns of the decision Tuesday night after they refused to recant the teachings of the Community of the Lady of All Nations, also known as the Army of Mary.
The Vatican has declared all members of the Army of Mary excommunicated. Hebert said the excommunication was the first in the diocese's 165-year history.
At a news conference, Hebert said the nuns "became entranced and deluded with a doctrine that is heretical." He said church officials removed the Eucharist - which Catholics revere as the body of Christ - from the monastery on Tuesday night.
Hebert said the sect's members believe that its 86-year-old founder, Marie Paule Giguere, is the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary and that God speaks directly through her. Excommunication bars the nuns from participating in the church liturgy and receiving communion or other sacraments.
5 comments:
Would you be so kind as to give the official website of the Army of Mary :
www.communaute-dame.qc.ca
It seems to me the first thing to do.
Thank you,
Francis Batt fbatt@free.fr
Well it looks like you have given the website. I do not wish to promote anything that is rejected by the Church.
Scripture tells us that we are to submit to authority. Even Jesus submitted. I will leave your comment posted with the website but I in no way support this heretical movement.
I feel that the sisters ignored what the church thought and went ahead and did their own thing, we can't do it with the laws or the state why should we be allowed to go against the laws of the church.
I say it again, the church is under attack from the inside out.
I think that your comment is true, Powerball, I feel that a lot of people came into the church just to attack it from the inside.
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