A guy, writing for America's #1 Stalinist apologist, with so little understanding of Catholicism, he cannot even bother to LEARN Catholic terminology, tries to nonetheless diagnose the collapse of the institution of female religious, and turns it into a hotheaded polemic.
I read recently of how a community of 700 sisters invited a team of psycholgists , recommended by the diocese. Within 5 years, there was not a single sister left in the community.
You may be thinking of Colson and Rogers. They helped empty out convent after convent.
One of the two was still alive several years ago and was spending much of his time traveling around the country apologizing. No joke. This outfit has a video or DVD of one of those presentations:
http://theroadtoemmaus.org/EM/ShpMl/00ShpMl.htm
Here's the video name: NON-DIRECTIVE EDUCATION - a FAILURE -- (Video, 1 3/4 hr) Wm. Coulson, Ph. D., a founding father (with Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow) of non-directive, "self-esteem" psychology, explains why the non-directive methods he helped develop are destroying our school systems. Suggestions for remedy. ($22) NOTE: videos being remastered and not currently available.)
The NOTE saying the video is being remastered has been there for TWO YEARS or more so I would call and ask. It is not a high quality video in terms of film production, but there is some real dynamite information there. It was fascinating.
I read that article, too. I think it was the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.