Nun running two parishes in south of England is 'warmly welcomed' by parishioners

[rug]

02 January 2015 13:07
by Joanna Moorhead

A religious sister who has taken charge of two Catholic parishes in the south of England has been "warmly welcomed" by her parishioners, according to the priest who says Sunday Mass there.

Fr Paul Hardy said Sr Yvonne Pilarski, whose official title is “pastoral administrator” of Christ the King Church in Milton Keynes, had been universally accepted by the people.

“I’ve seen the congregation treating her exactly as if she was their parish priest,” he said. “They’ve taken it very well – she is obviously their resident person and that’s how she’s treated. If she wants something to happen, it happens.”

Sr Yvonne, who also administers the parish of St Bede’s in Newport Pagnall, does all the administration work connected with her parishes, as well as any pastoral care that does not require a priest, such as taking Communion to the sick or visiting the elderly. “She is very much the boss,” said Fr Hardy. “She’s a very good parish priest – she has that feminine quality that parish priests don’t have.”

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/1584/0/nun-takes-over-running-of-two-parishes-in-south-of-england-as-de-facto-priest

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. There is a man on the National Catholic Reporter discussion board

Who insists that if women were ever to be ordained in the Catholic Church, the Church would go out of existence within six months. This nun give the lie to that.

[okasha]

2. Similar predictions

were made for the Episcopal Church decades ago. It's still here.