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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

Fortinbras Armstrong

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2. As I said in the other thread on this,

Reply to UrbScotty (Original post)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 07:50 AM

Nov 2013

It won't be easy, since apparently both John Paul II and Benedict wanted ideological bishops. Certainly, under the last Pope, activist nuns were slapped down by the Vatican for not pushing the ideological stances the Vatican wanted. From a 2012 Huffington Post story,

The Vatican announced in April that a team of bishops would take control of the LCWR in order to make the nuns hew more closely and publicly to orthodox teachings on sexuality and theology.

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