The fight over contraception and health-care reform was portrayed as various kinds of wars-on women, on religion, between the G.O.P. and Obama-but it also included a skirmish in a longer fight within Catholicism, with the Vatican and bishops on one side and American nuns on the other. On Wednesday, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which for a few years has been conducting an inquiry into the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the main association of American nuns-provoked, it said, by its discernment of ‘radical feminist themes

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