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
Friday, April 20th, 2012
A War on Nuns?
Stephan: I was astonished to hear on television tonight that the nuns of America have been chastised by the Vatican and the bishops for paying too much time and attention helping the poor, and powerless, and not enough becoming involved with politics and trying to defeat marriage equality, and condemning homosexuals. Coming from an all-male hierarchy, a significant number of whom are either child molesters, or people who have covered up this molestation this comment reveals how deeply sick this institution has become. One wonders with which group -- the Vatican or the nuns -- Jesus would side? Frankly, these women are too good for the Roman Church in its present state of corruption.