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a four-year Vatican investigation had found the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has challenged church teaching on homosexuality, the ordination of women and the 2010 health-care reform popularly dubbed Obamacare. Nuns, the investigation also concluded, spend too much energy on poverty and economic injustice and not enough on abortion and same-sex marriage.

Yesterday at the Mass that is closest to our house, but not the parish of which we are members, in the homily the priest started talking about how much he disagreed with the sisters being reprimanded, how the issues that they were being reprimanded for were "unimportant" and how the work the sisters did for the poor was so much more important. He said it was wrong to criticize them, etc.

I had only suspected the Leftist nature of this priest before and his laid back attitude toward the Mass is why we are not members there and one reason why we are homeschooling instead of putting our kids in the school associated with that parish. However, yesterday was the first time he made statements in his homily in direct contradiction of the Pope. Calling the HHS mandate, abortion, gay marriage, etc. "unimportant" issues really leaves little doubt in one's mind where this priest's priorities lie. I'm not sure what action I shoudl take, since we are not members of this parish.