Thursday, May 2, 2013

Controversial Spiritual Directors at the Gregorian University, Rome

The Gregorian Pontifical University,Rome has posted a list of Spiritual Directors on a Notice Board outside the chapel of the university.
How can one go to a Spiritual Director who denies the teachings of the Catholic Church on salvation, other religions, Jews etc?
Donna Orsuto and others have been teaching 'mission' at this Jesuit University where they have denied the necessity of the Church for salvation.There were a group of Missionaries of Charity Sisters who attended one such course and asked the professors why did they underestimate the importance of the Church in salvation. Do we really know any one saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire these professors were asked. There was  no response, for the Mother Teresa Sisters.
 
The list mentions:
Donna Orsuto.
Language :Italian,English.
 Tel:5509 (Gregorian University prefix number)
She has written a book titled Holiness in which she has not affirmed the Catholic faith on this subject.She is a Eucharist Minister at the Church of Santa Suzanna Rome where  the Rector, Fr.Greg Apparcel of the Paulist Fathers, rejects the church teachings on salvation and other religions.She is the Director of the Lay Center Foyes.
Spiritually she is to accompany a student or seminarian at the Gregorian University!
-Lionel Andrades
Dr. Donna Orsuto
Originally from Ohio, Donna Orsuto is the Co-founder and Director of the Lay Centre. She is also a Professor at the Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and a Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). She lectures extensively and gives retreats in various parts of the world. Her most recent book is entitled Holiness (London: Continuum 2006). She is involved in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, having served as a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and as a member of the Commission for Ecumenism and Dialogue of the Diocese of Rome. On 7 October 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Dame of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great
. http://www.laycentre.org/biography.html

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