“With their leaders saying that they stand at a historic crossroads, more than 900 Roman Catholic nuns have gathered here for a four-day meeting to decide how to respond to a biting Vatican assessment that cast them as disobedient dissenters and ordered three American bishops to overhaul the nuns’ organization, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.” Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times, Aug. 8, 2012

Nuns Meet to Weigh Reply to Vatican – NYTimes.com.