Officials of the nuns' leadership conference said they were "stunned" by the crackdown. But Catholics who have studied the growing rift between the church hierarchy and American nuns said it was a long time coming. "This has been brewing for 40 years," said Ann Carey, the author of the book "Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women's Religious Communities." Only Leftist Feminists could be stunned by something that was coming at them for forty years.
What they mean by "stunned," however, is what a two-year old means when it screams itself purple with rage at the word: "No."