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Vatican probe ends with an olive branch for American nuns / Cruxnow.com
Posted by Voice of the Faithful in Future of the Church, Pope Francis, Religious Women, Vatican, Voice of the Faithful on December 16, 2014
An unprecedented and highly controversial Vatican investigation of every community of Catholic sisters in the United States that began with criticism of nuns as having a ‘secular mentality’ ended Tuesday (Dec. 16) with a report full of praise, and without any disciplinary measures or new controls.
“The result likely will be seen as a major olive branch from the Vatican for American nuns, as well as another sign of a more conciliatory approach under Pope Francis.
“‘Since the early days of the Catholic Church [in the United States], women religious have courageously been in the forefront … selflessly tending to the spiritual, moral, educational, physical and social needs of countless individuals,’ the report says.”
By John L. Allen, Jr., Cruxnow.com — Click here to read the rest of this story.
Click here to read the full Vatican report on the Apostolic visitation to American nuns.
Nuns on the Bus Leader Responds to Reaffirmation of Vatican LCWR Mandate
Posted by Voice of the Faithful in Religious Women, Vatican, Voice of the Faithful on April 22, 2013
Vatican Plays Politics with American Nuns by Sister Simone Campbell, Commentary in The Washington Post
I would be lying if I wrote that I was not hurt by the reaffirmation of the censure of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and by extension of NETWORK, the Catholic social justice lobby that I lead. I had hoped that the censure would quietly disappear in an Italian bureaucratic way. But this is not to be. Rather we are to continue to be caught in macro-church-politics of a group of Catholics at odds with the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).”
Pope Upholds Reprimand of American Nuns’ Group / The New York Times
Posted by Voice of the Faithful in Vatican, Voice of the Faithful on April 16, 2013
Pope Francis has reaffirmed the reprimand of American nuns issued by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and endorsed the plan to have three bishops supervise an overhaul of the nation’s largest umbrella group of American nuns.” By Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times
Nun Responds to Vatican’s Rebuke with Music
Posted by Voice of the Faithful in Religious Women, Voice of the Faithful on December 3, 2012
Nun Uses Music to Convey Spirited Message Against the Vatican’s Rebuke
“Last spring, when the Vatican issued a harsh assessment of the group representing a majority of American nuns accusing them of “serious doctrinal problems,” Sister Kathy Sherman, 60, said she responded the way she always does when she feels something deeply. She wrote a song.” By Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times
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