U. S. nuns under Vatican scrutiny

Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times reports:

The second investigation of nuns is a doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella organization that claims 1,500 members from about 95 percent of women’s religious orders. This investigation was ordered by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is headed by an American, Cardinal William Levada.

Cardinal Levada sent a letter to the Leadership Conference saying an investigation was warranted because it appeared that the organization had done little since it was warned eight years ago that it had failed to “promote” the church’s teachings on three issues: the male-only priesthood, homosexuality and the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church as the means to salvation.

The letter goes on to say that, “Given both the tenor and the doctrinal content of various addresses” at assemblies the Leadership Conference has held in recent years, the problem has not been fixed.

Our earlier report of the probes here.

Posted by Jim Naughton on July 2, 2009 5:32 PM | |
Comments (2)

I say we reach out to these noble women who would make great Episcopal nuns (AND PRIESTS)! Sisters, the Episcopal Church welcomes you.

Posted by Peter Pearson [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 2, 2009 6:12 PM

May God bless the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, who are on their way to Rome. But it seems to me that Peter Pearson's suggestion would be a fair exchange.

Posted by Bill Moorhead [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 4, 2009 4:45 PM

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