Vatican Goes After U.S. Nuns and Women

[DonViejo]

On Monday, the National Catholic Reporter reported that the Vatican rebuked the largest umbrella organization for U.S. nuns for planning to honor Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a theologian whose work has been criticized by U.S. bishops for containing “misrepresentations” and doctrinal errors. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) was sharply criticized by the Vatican’s orthodoxy watchdog, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, in a speech that was made public on Monday. He said that after this disagreement, all LCWR honorees must be pre-approved by the Vatican, a reform first proposed under Pope Benedict XVI after an investigation concluded that U.S. nuns were promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.” The LCWR would only comment that Mueller’s staff was “respectful and engaging.”

Read it at National Catholic Reporter

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/05/06/vatican-goes-after-u-s-nuns-and-women.html

[trotsky]

1. Duplicate thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218128425

[cbayer]

2. The LCWR is already pissed and I don't think this is going to help.

Interesting that they are keeping silent on this, but I would love to be in the room where the leadership is discussing it.

[Brettongarcia]

3. Readers should click on the original post, on the link. But a question on DU procedure here.

Is it usual procedure for DU to leave the 2nd posting on the board; and ironically allow the original to be presented, accessed, only by way of a link in the 2nd posting?

This seems to rather penalize and obscure the 1st posting.

Shouldn't this 2nd posting just be removed?

[cbayer]

4. An article that discusses a news item and links to it is perfectly acceptable.

The only rules concerning this here are that original articles should be correctly cited and should include no more than four paragraphs from the original source.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. There is no rule against dups except in lbn