You’re toast!
The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”
The Vatican’s assessment…said that members of the group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
The sisters were also reprimanded for making public statements that “disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.” During the debate over the health care overhaul in 2010, American bishops came out in opposition to the health plan, but dozens of sisters, many of whom belong to the Leadership Conference, signed a statement supporting it…
The verdict on the nuns group was issued by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is now led by an American, Cardinal William Levada… He appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to lead the process of reforming the sisters’ conference, with assistance from Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki and Bishop Leonard Blair, who was in charge of the investigation of the group.
They have been given up to five years to revise the group’s statutes, approve of every speaker at the group’s public programs and replace a handbook the group used to facilitate dialogue on matters that the Vatican said should be settled doctrine. They are also supposed to review the Leadership Conference’s links with Network and another organization, the Resource Center for Religious Life…
And while the Vatican was investigating the Leadership Conference, the Vatican was also conducting a separate, widespread investigation of all women’s religious orders and communities in the United States. That inquiry, known as a “visitation,” was concluded last December, but the results of that process have not been made public.
Just in case you’re thinking of doing something other than obeying.
No one has to stay in Roman Catholicism.
Frankly no one should as it is the contrary to Jesus.
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I met jesus the other day. He runs a lawn care business down on ash street, he was providing a quote for my lawn care this summer. He’s catholic so how can it be contradictory to him?
There are plenty of things wrong with the catholic church however as a practicing Catholic Christian I love Jesus just as much as you do perhaps more because i do not assume that a baptist or a mthodist cant be true Christians because i do not know there heart. You should not assume to know mune just beuase my denomination is Catholic. I am just as much Christian as you or anyone else who believes in the trinity.
Why should anyone care what a cross dressing pedophile thinks. The Catholic Church is dedicated to child sexual abuse by frustrated old men.
Yes…this is exactly what the Catholic Church is dedicated to. Brilliant analysis. You must be one of them educated folks.
what little boys? there’s no little boys being raped over here…
Hey look a women is thinking for her self… Quick get her…
If the nuns disagree with the Pope and the traditions of their faith they have the right to walk or get kicked out. As for the rest of the people sticking their noses in this who aren’t Catholics. Take a long hike on a short pier while carrying a large rock. It’s none of your business. That includes me.
So, according to you, no diversity if opinion is acceptable in the Catholic church?
No matter how mild or reasonable?
If the nuns or any Catholic religious walk they lose their retirement. A good friend who is a Catholic priest told me that’s the only reason he hasn’t left. Nuns and priests are not part of the Social Security system.
@deowll it is my business if children around me are being hurt and people in positions of power & responsibility are using those positions to cover it up.
It is my business if adults around me feel that they are in hopeless positions. I want them to hear that there is an alternative. The problem is that too many people are telling me that, as an ex-RC, it is no longer any of my business. As a human being with a hope of becoming a decent one, that is my business.
It is not my business to tell the Pope how to read the Bible. he will know it far better than I ever will. His interpretation is a bit off though. He ought to talk to someone about that – but he never will because he is supposed to be infallible on this matter.
There are two types of people in this world that I hate. People who are intolerant of people unlike themselves, and the Catholics.
Is a person who hates haters a hater, therefore, hating himself?
I just bought a book about the history of Popes. This new guy looks like he can keep up with the nastiest of them. Why did the Cardinals have to elect such an evil looking guy?
Yeah, I had my run in with this pecker head.
I’d love to hear your story.
And these are the same creepy Bishops who oredred the GOP to ban contraceptives.
And the GOP eagerly obeyed.
Nuns and priests do pay into Social Security and Medicare.