Immaculate Heart
Nan Cano, Los Angels, Calif.
Volume 37 Issue 4, 5 & 6 | Posted: July 18, 2022
Our beloved friend, defender and honorary Immaculate Heart Community Bishop Remi De Roo, went to heaven in peace late last night. IHMs greeted him in his eternal home: Margaret Baumann and Laura Distaso. Bishop Remi blessed them both in life in Canada and in their deaths last year.
When our decision to reframe our lives became clearly a matter of Community conscience, Bishop Remi, who was the last living and youngest Father at Vatican II, publicly stood with us in defiance of Church policy. Looking back at those years, he said it was fun.
In my Community history, Take Heart, Bishop Remi wrote: “I have not regretted taking the sisters’ side in the struggle to make moral choices on the basis of conscience for women—and men—in the Church.”
In a letter to our Community, Bishop Remi wrote: “Many observers have marveled at how the Immaculate Heart Community survived this crisis and continues faithfully to pursue authentic religious life and to perform a variety of ministries. Its movement into ecumenical and interfaith directions carves new paths into the future. The proclamation of the joy of the Gospel knows no boundaries geographically or spiritually.”
“Let us hope and pray that they will keep fulfilling the leadership role in which Providence seems to be guiding them as new forms of consecrated life emerge and develop throughout North America.”
Nan Cano
Los Angeles, Calif. Feb. 2/22
Nan Cano, Los Angels, Calif.