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When Catholic Nuns Defend a Tribal Mountain Sacred to Pagans, Something Is WrongThe term, "gone native," is particularly descriptive of the 1960's styled nuns who mistake activism for the care and feeding of the poor, in preparation for hearing the Gospel.As a mining company prepares to start extracting copper from a “sacred” mountain in Arizona, protesters gathered at the site called Oak Flat. Among them was a small group of elderly Catholic nuns who supported an Apache group’s effort to ban the mine. The three-day event in July was a tragic case of what has gone wrong inside the progressive...

What Is Catholic About the ‘Catholic Health Association’? It is a left-wing lobbying operation subversive of the faith.Sister Carol Keehan, who famously lobbied for Obamacare, received over a $1 million in salary as head of the Catholic Health Association. Her successor, Sister Mary Haddad, started off in 2019 at $758,146. As nuns, they can’t take these salaries. Instead, the salaries go to their religious orders. Keehan belongs to the Daughters of Charity. Haddad belongs to the Sisters of Mercy. These orders have handsomely profited off the left-wing lobbying of Keehan and Haddad.Vatican News recently lionized the habit-less nun: “Sr. Mary...