Apostolic Women’s Merger Embodies Post-Conciliar Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency portal reports that the Congregation of Jesus (CJ) and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) have merged into a single congregation, formalized at a Mass presided over by Mr. Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Society of Jesus. The unification brings together approximately 1,800 religious women across 40 countries, claiming to fulfill the vision of Mary Ward (1585-1645), who founded an institute “modeled on the framework of the Society of Jesus” with sisters who were “not cloistered, had no specific religious dress, and focused on God’s compassion.” The event featured a symposium titled “Women of the Dawn: On the Threshold of New Beginnings,” with participants celebrating their commitment to “education, social justice, pastoral ministry, and advocacy for women and those on the margins.” This merger epitomizes the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of religious life through naturalism and apostasy.
Rejection of Cloister and Habit: Rebellion Against Divine Law
Mary Ward’s foundational rejection of the clausura (enclosure) and religious habit constitutes direct defiance of the Council of Trent’s decrees. Session XXV (1563) explicitly mandated that “all nuns…shall dwell perpetually in their monasteries in the enclosure” and wear a “habit of a religious shape” (Chapter V). Pius XII’s apostolic constitution Sponsa Christi (1950) reaffirmed that the contemplative life remains “the firmest bulwark of the Church” requiring enclosure. Ward’s experiment – now celebrated by the conciliar sect – was condemned by Urban VIII in 1631 through the bull Pastoralis Romani Pontificis, which suppressed her institute precisely for abandoning these essential elements of consecrated life.
The merger’s glorification of this rebellion reveals the neo-church’s hatred for the theology of the consecrated state as sponsa Christi (Bride of Christ). By dissolving the distinction between active and contemplative life, it reduces religious vocation to social activism – a modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into…liberal Protestantism”).
Jesuit Complicity in Apostasy
The unification Mass presided by Mr. Arturo Sosa – whose order has spearheaded post-conciliar modernism – demonstrates the paramasonic alliance destroying religious life. The Society of Jesus, once the Church’s doctrinal vanguard, now orchestrates the abolition of its own Formula Instituti‘s principles. The original Jesuit constitutions required perinde ac cadaver (obedience like a corpse) to papal authority, whereas Sosa publicly rejects Christ’s exclusive mediation (La Civiltà Cattolica, 2017) and promotes climate syncretism. His presiding over this ceremony fulfills Pius IX’s warning: “The enemies of the Church act with greater audacity and hardness” (Syllabus of Errors, Closing Statement).
Theological Bankruptcy of “Shared Ministry”
The merger’s stated purpose – “shared ministry” in “social justice” and “advocacy” – exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s supernatural mission. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925):
“When men…renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior…the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
The “Loretto Sisters” now prioritize feminist activism over the sanctification of souls, embodying the naturalism condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 56: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction”). Their symposium title – “Women of the Dawn” – evokes goddess worship symbolism, while the replacement of sacramental life with humanitarian work constitutes apostasy from the munera tria (threefold office) of Christ as Priest, Prophet, and King.
Silent Apostasy Through Omission
The article’s complete omission of the terms “Mass,” “sacraments,” “holiness,” or “grace” reveals the merger’s theological void. Whereas pre-conciliar religious rules centered on the opus Dei (Divine Office) and Eucharistic adoration, these sisters substitute Ignatian spirituality with sociological jargon. Canon 594 of the 1917 Code demanded religious orders dedicate themselves primarily to “divine worship and works of charity,” with charity understood as leading souls to salvation. The conciliar inversion reduces charity to material welfare – precisely the communism Pius XI condemned in Divini Redemptoris (1937) as “satanic scourge.”
Subversion Through False Unity
Sister Carmel Swords’ claim that unification provides “witness to Christ’s Gospel message of peace and harmony” constitutes theological fraud. True ecclesiastical unity flows from adherence to the depositum fidei (deposit of faith), not organizational mergers. The Second Council of Lyons (1274) defined unity through submission to the Roman Pontiff and profession of the same faith – both impossible when the “unified” congregation recognizes antipopes and promotes heresies. This false “oneness” actualizes the Masonic plan exposed in Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (1884): to create “one republic” with “uniformity everywhere.”
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Congregation of Jesus and Loretto Sisters merge into 1 congregation (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 05.11.2025