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LCWR reform is not criticism of religious orders, archbishop says   By Francis X. Rocca | Catholic News Service   Paul Haring | CNS A Vatican-ordered reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is not directed at women's religious orders or at any individual sisters, nor is it a statement on the general quality of religious life today, said Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is overseeing the controversial measure. Archbishop Sartain is pictured celebrating Mass in 2011 in Rome. VATICAN CITY — A Vatican-ordered reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is not directed at women's...

Threats Linked to Uncovering of Organ-Trafficking NetworkWomen Religious in Mozambique Report Ambush AttacksMADRID, Spain, FEB. 2, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Five women religious working in Mozambique say they have received death threats after they uncovered an organ-trafficking scheme that kidnaps and kills children and youths. The religious -- four from Spain and one from Brazil -- have been missionaries in the Nampula area of this southeastern African nation for 30 years. According to a report they wrote, they have escaped four ambush attacks, after having reported to the local authorities the "kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of...

As part of a series of debates on who should be our next president, Margaret Warner moderates a discussion between Rev. Joan Brown and Father Richard John Neuhaus.  JIM LEHRER: More politics now. Another last week one-on-one on who should be President of the United States and to Margaret Warner. MARGARET WARNER: Tonight, we turn to two religious thinkers, the Reverend Joan Brown Campbell, a Protestant minister, is director of the religion department at the Chautauqua Institution, and former general secretary of the National Council of Churches. She supports Al Gore. Father Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic priest, is President...