Vatican orders crackdown on U.S. nun association, says it undermined teachings on homosexuality

BY RACHEL ZOLL, AP RELIGION WRITER

The Vatican orthodoxy watchdog announced Wednesday a full-scale overhaul of the largest umbrella group for nuns in the United States, accusing the group of taking positions that undermine Roman Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."

An American archbishop was appointed to oversee reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which will include rewriting the group's statutes, reviewing all its plans and programs - including approving speakers - and ensuring the organization properly follows Catholic prayer and ritual.

The Leadership Conference, based in Silver Spring, Md., represents about 57,000 religious sisters and offers programs ranging from leadership training for women's religious orders to advocacy on social justice issues. Representatives of the Leadership Conference did not respond to requests for comment.

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[Gary Gans]

To the protectors of Mithra, and the 'Holy See' selective compilation of the Bible:

Your taste for murder continues, as it began with change of Saul the Murderer, or as you call him St Paul. Let's just be clear you has silently promoted mass killings of so many in order to keep fear in your followers, thereby creating compliance with your Cult of Fear.