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Old 04-19-2012, 06:19 PM   #1
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The Pope reprimands Catholic Nuns in U.S.

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NY Times
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: April 18, 2012
Vatican Reprimands a Group of U.S. Nuns and Plans Changes

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The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in
the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States,
saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”

The Vatican’s assessment, issued on Wednesday, said that members of the group,
the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching
on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted
“radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”

The sisters were also reprimanded for making public statements that
“disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.”
During the debate over the health care overhaul in 2010, American bishops
came out in opposition to the health plan, but dozens of sisters,
many of whom belong to the Leadership Conference, signed a statement supporting it
— support that provided crucial cover for the Obama administration in the battle over health care.

The conference is an umbrella organization of women’s religious communities,
and claims 1,500 members who represent 80 percent of the Catholic sisters in the United States.
It was formed in 1956 at the Vatican’s request, and answers to the Vatican,
said Sister Annmarie Sanders, the group’s communications director.

Word of the Vatican’s action took the group completely by surprise,
Sister Sanders said. She said that the group’s leaders were in Rome on Wednesday
for what they thought was a routine annual visit to the Vatican when they were
informed of the outcome of the investigation, which began in 2008.

The verdict on the nuns group was issued by the Vatican’s Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is now led by an American, Cardinal William Levada,
formerly the archbishop of San Francisco. He appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle
to lead the process of reforming the sisters’ conference, with assistance from
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki and Bishop Leonard Blair, who was in charge of the investigation of the group.

They have been given up to five years to revise the group’s statutes,
approve of every speaker at the group’s public programs and replace a handbook
the group used to facilitate dialogue on matters that the Vatican said should be settled doctrine.
They are also supposed to review the Leadership Conference’s links with Network
and another organization, the Resource Center for Religious Life.

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