Posted on 04/16/2015 12:21:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Vatican on Thursday unexpectedly ended its controversial reform of the main umbrella group of U.S. nuns, cementing a shift in tone and treatment of the U.S. sisters under the social justice-minded Pope Francis.
The Vatican said it had accepted a final report on its overhaul of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and declared that the “implementation of the mandate has been accomplished” nearly two years ahead of schedule.
It was an abrupt about-face given that just last year, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, sharply rebuked the LCWR for its “regrettable” attitude and behavior during the process. He accused the LCWR of being in “open provocation” with the Holy See and U.S. bishops. […]
When Mueller’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith took over the LCWR in 2012, it accused the group of taking positions that undermined Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting “certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.” …
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unexpected.
Absolutely.
“It’s just a malignant tumor. Let the next Pope handle it.”
Not really. It makes sense that the Church would not have any authority over a non Catholic group. The Vatican does not discipline Wiccans why should it discipline the LCWR?
They didn’t excommunicate them.
The orders will definitely die out now.
too hard a crackdown would let them steal the hospitals and colleges from the church, like the Tuscon hospital that left the church after doing an abortion on a woman instead of transferring her for alternative treatment (transplant). a crackdown would result in the press equating these leftist lesbian nuns as victims, and portray them as if they were still the holy nuns of the past. Low informational voter types would believe the press, not their kids or friends who know the horror stories of what they are teaching, or rather what they aren't teaching, our kids.
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