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."
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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.