Sisters in Crisis Interview: The Transcript

The National Catholic Register ^ | 4/26/12 | Jimmy Akin

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Because of the time sensitivity of last week's dramatic news of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith demanding a reform of the major U.S. group of leaders of women religious, I wasn't able to have a transcript available when I released my exclusive interview with Ann Carey, author of Sisters in Crisis. The transcript is now available, and you can read it below.

You can also listen to it in audio format by clicking here.

And now, the transcript . . .

I'm going to bump the podcast that I originally expected to release today by a week in order to be able to cover and important news story that broke this week in the Catholic world.

Basically, what happened is the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which is the body at the Vatican that is charged with protecting the soundness of Catholic teaching, issued a report concerning a doctrinal assessment that had been done Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which is the largest body for women religious in the US.

The report indicated that there were grave doctrinal problems, and that the LCWR needs to be reformed. That's a dramatic story and to help me talk about this story, I decided to bring on Ann Carey. She's an author and I consulted her in preparing this story for the National Catholic Register that I wrote on this subject.

Ann is very well versed in this area so I decided to bring her on the show to help us understand it. Because of the timeliness of this story, I won't have had a chance to get it transcribed by the time I release it, but I will get the transcript done so we can release that as soon as possible.

Without further ado........

[Salvation]

So what got said? Where's the transcript?

Sisters in Crisis Interview: The Transcript
Crisis between U.S. nuns and Vatican has been a long time coming
8 Themes of the LCWR Worldview
The Vatican's Corrective to Liberal Catholics
The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening?
Media and Nuns Colluding in Deception, Says Expert: Vatican’s Reform no David and Goliath Battle
The Real Shock...
A Catholic ‘war on women’ {Barf alert/liberal tripe}
The Vatican and the Sisters
The Vatican and the Sisters
NPR Offers Air to Catholic Sister to Diss Pope, Bishops: 'Women Get It First Then Explain to Guys'

Important Background Information About the CDF-LCWR Situation
Nuns Gone Wild: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Exhibit A for Explaining the LCWR Report
Vatican Crackdown on U.S. Nuns a Long Time Brewing
LCWR: getting to the truth of the matter (the blogosphere response to CDF document)
Radical feminist nuns’ group ‘stunned’ by Vatican criticisms, reform plan
Vatican announces reform of US women's religious conference (more details)
Citing doctrinal problems, Vatican announces reforms of US nuns' group
In hard-hitting document Vatican launches clean-up of feminist nuns in United States
LCWR Having a Bad Day. Vatican Names Archbishop Delegate to Continue Watching LCWR and Network