Message from Frannie Rose
Dear Corey
Recently I noticed on my facebook page
that you had been trying to contact me for some time. I wasn’t
aware your message was there until today, because you are not listed
as one of my facebook friends. Your letter mentioned that you wanted
to me to contact you.
Your postings were brought to my
attention last year and I found them judgmental and unkind.
Theologians use theology to help to support understanding, not as a
weapon. Your postings were immediately accusatory and I felt bullied
by someone whom has no understanding of my intention or what I speak.
There are many items you discussed with
the premise that I am guilty until proven innocent. Your stories
about what I have spoken and written are incorrect. Much of what you
perceived were assumptions and perceptions based entirely upon your
own premise that I am new age. Given your worldview lens, you saw
what you wanted to see because you have no understanding of the
concepts I was discussing.
To add to your misconceptions, on the
youtube that you analyzed, behind me was always a screen with a quote
from a Christian mystic that I was discussing. You did not see the
screen or the quote because it was not seen on the video. You would
have had to be present at the retreat to see it. However you
commented on what I said, labeling it heresy. On one of those quotes
you wrote a whole paragraph, which was a quote by Teresa of Avila –
“Teach me dear God, all that you know." You lashed out into a
whole tirade about this.
It saddens me as a new Catholic to
experience first hand your lack of faith, your lack of kindness, and
compassion and by your assumption that I am evil because you have not
experienced what I have. I invite you to look more deeply into
yourself to find these things. For surely your unkind and judgmental
way of being has become slanderous and despotic and serves no humane
purpose.
Perhaps God will help you to understand
that when you approach human beings with kindness, compassion and
love, you receive these things as well as their cooperation.
I will pray for this.
In His peace,
Frannie Rose
My Response to Frannie Rose
Frannie Rose,
I think that given the time and effort
that people have put forth in order to express their concerns it may
be prudent for you to actually address the following letter which I
have written to the bishop recently. Since it is thorough and
well-documented I will not reproduce points from it here for the sake
brevity. http://thecatholicwesleyan.blogspot.com/2017/03/
I think that people would be more
interested in a detailed response to our concerns instead of simply
stating that we are misunderstanding you, or simply stating that your
teachings are orthodox, or that you think that our concerns have been
expressed in a judgmental or unkind manner, or whether you think we
have a strong Catholic faith, or whether you think we share the same
religious experiences. Therefore, we eagerly anticipate your
thorough, detailed, and well-documented responses to each of our
points and evidences which we have put forth.
To be sure, I have not made mere
assumptions concerning your teachings since all of my writings have
been based in a detailed analysis of what you have taught and written
and it is on this documented basis that I have determined that your
teachings are incompatible with the Catholic Faith.
Quoting a Christian Mystic in reference
to your teachings does not mean that your teachings are compatible
with what that mystic was saying in the broader perspective of their
Catholic faith. It is very easy to misunderstand the mystics
particularly because there are “catholic” materials that are
published and influence a great number of Catholics, especially
writings from dissenters such as Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating.
Dissent and liberalism within the Catholic Church is alive and well,
and many of these would lead you to believe that the writings of
Eckhart Tolle are compatible with Catholic thought, etc. But there
are those that work diligently to make sure that Catholics understand
the true Catholic faith and not other versions of it proposed by
dissent. Our concern is expressed as clearly as the distinction
between the Catholic faith and a dissenting amalgamation of some
Catholic concepts with New Age elements. See the following on Thomas
Keating as an example of dissent:
http://www.spiritualdirection.com/2015/09/28/can-i-trust-father-thomas-keating
I truly believe that you have found
this dissenting niche in 'Catholic' thought and have had this
reinforced by others, even priests, nuns, and bishops. Richard
Hanifen himself has stated that he sees no problem with Panenthiesm
even though it contradicts the teachings of Ecumenical Councils.
Because of this I do not blame nor accuse you of deliberate deception
but since we have repeatedly detailed our concerns publicly with no
serious response we have questioned just how genuine this is.
We eagerly await your detailed response
to our concerns laid out in our letter to Bishop Sheridan.
Corey Chambers
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