Secular Café: The Vatican turns the screw again

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The Vatican turns the screw again Apr 20th 2012, 01:49 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17766615 Quote: The Vatican has ordered a crackdown on a group of American nuns that it considers too radical. It says the group is undermining Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality and is promoting "feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith". The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is the largest organisation of Catholic nuns in the US. An archbishop has been appointed to oversee its reform to ensure that it conforms to Catholic prayer and ritual... ...The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the nuns' organisation faced a "grave" doctrinal crisis. It said issues of "crucial importance" to the church, such as abortion and euthanasia, had been ignored. Vatican officials also castigated the group for making some public statements that "disagree with or challenge positions taken by the bishops", who are the church's "authentic teachers of faith and morals."... ...In its presentations investigators noted "a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith." But of course the (all-male) bishops must know better than a lot of uppity nuns.

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