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April 19th, 2012
03:05 PM ET
Vatican blasts American nuns, calls for reformsBy Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN) - The Vatican is turning up the heat on a group of nuns it says are operating outside of the Roman Catholic Church's doctrines. The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church’s doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years-long “doctrinal assessment” investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80% of the Catholic nuns in the United States. The “assessment reveals serious doctrinal problems,” said the report, which called for major reforms. The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith appointed Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle to institute those reforms. The report singled out a Washington, DC social justice group called Network, which is run by nuns and the Resource Center for Religious Institutes, which assists members with financial and legal resources. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories The Vatican report, made public by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the doctrinal assessment began in part because of the group’s dissent on the Holy See’s teaching on the ordination of women and human sexuality. The Catholic Church ordains only men to be priests and says sex is to be reserved for between a man and woman who are married in the eyes of the church. The assessment said that a Leadership Conference of Women Religious conference yielded “manifest problematic statements and serious theological, even doctrinal errors,” that went unchallenged. It also said the event promoted “radical feminism”and decried the “prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith in some programs and presentations sponsored by the LCWR...” While the assessment praised the social justice work of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Network and the Resources Center for Religious Life, it said the groups were “silent on the right to life from conception to natural death” and on the Church’s view on “family life and human sexuality.” The report also took note of public statements from the nuns that opposed the Catholic Bishops. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious and Network vocally disagreed with the Bishops' conference's position on the Affordable Care Act, which they supported and the Bishops did not. The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith called the current doctrinal and pastoral positions of the groups “grave and a matter of serious concern,” because of the global influence of the groups. Pope Benedict XVI approved the request from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith to intervene and the implementation of their recommended changes, the doctrinal office said in its assessment. Some of the changes to come include a revision of the LCWR statutes, a review of programs including their annual general assembly, and a review of their ties with Network and Resource Center for Religious Institutes. Cardinal William Levada, a former Archbishop in the United States and now the Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, said in a statement that the the Vatican process is aimed at “fostering a patient and collaborative renewal of this conference of major superiors in order to provide a stronger doctrinal foundation for its many laudable initiatives and activities.” The sisters, for their part, expressed surprised at the findings. “Because the leadership of LCWR has the custom of meeting annually with the staff of CDF in Rome and because the conference follows canonically-approved statutes, we were taken by surprise," the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said in a statement. "This is a moment of great import for religious life and the wider church," the statement continued. "We ask your prayers as we meet with the LCWR National Board within the coming month to review the mandate and prepare a response.” soundoff (1,705 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Next »
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Who desings the Pope's costumes. That is what I wanna know
I have contacted the "FASHION POLICE" to review the Pope...........Joan R. should have some sound tips
To waste Red Prada's with that tent like dress, makes him look huge.........he needs a new stylist.
I don't know, but he shoud really ask QEII who does hers, because those gowns don't flatter his figure at all.
From my understanding there is an italian designer that makes ALL of the popes present & futures clothing. This one familys fashion house has the contract "sewed" up.
I know of some Queens who could help the Pope with fashion...............
Reading some of these comments makes me cry when Santorum dropped out 🙁
Because you support Obama? A Santorum nomination would have made a second term a lock.
No offense, But I made a promise not to make any cheap shot jokes about his name when he was a candidate. But please consider the humor in your comment. " when santorum dropped out" yaack
Relax and get in your car and drive to Crawford, find comfort with the Bush Tribe or have a free glass of Kool-Aid and join the Mormon Klan............Sad to waste the drama and tears for that useless reason.
For those unfamiliar with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, you have probably heard of it by its earlier name – the Office of the Holy Inquisition. No, it's never gone away.
Bingo!
What does it do? How can you get a job there? oath of provery and oath of keeping it in the pants are fine by me. It seems like a rewarding life But do I have to believe the myths to work there?
Well these nuns do good things and they don't molest little children. Leave the nuns alone, they are your only saving grace, they are good people. I bet if they were male, this would not be a problem. What the nuns have tolerated, from these self righteous men of the cloth, is shameful.
Islam will take over the world soon
Nah, we have far too many liberation missiles to allow that.
Why hasn't the "Church" sent the Inquisition to burn these nuns as witches? :o)
The CDF -is- the Inquisition. Really.
Dani31
I know. I'm surprised some of these nuns haven't died accidentally.
They haven't been blowing the whistle on money-laundering at the Vatican Bank like John Paul I did. 😉
The Pope doesn't want to get his new dress soiled
Catholic church once again trying to put women in their place.
Religion: A viral transmission of toxic memes that can cause the host a wide range of physical, emotional, and neurological disorders, or in extreme cases may lead to the death of the host and/or additional members of the population.
Virus: A molecular religion.
And the Vatican is wondering why so many people are leaving the church, why so many pews are empty on Sunday. If only they spent this much energy on protecting all the children who have been molested by rogue priests!
LET THE POPE SIT ALONE IN HIS OWN PEW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, the CDF is the body responsible for investigating clergy abuse. Clearly, they're looking for other work. 🙂
the sad thing is that theer are many chrsitians such as marsha and thier arrogance is astonishing. Well theiir comments actually show who they are and this is why they need Salvation.
Freedom from religion is salvation.
marsha is a racist and a facist and we are praying for her as she obviously has no kindness in her so its obvious that the name she prays in has no effect.
So, I shouldn't trust nuns trying to make women equal, but I should trust bishops and priests trying to turn 'little girls and boys" into "women and men" before their time.. no, thank you.
You would think with the supposedly "Almighty God" on their side he would be able to prevent his servants from r a p i n g our children or at least make sure they were found out and removed from "His Church" as quickly as possible. That or it's not "His Church"... or maybe their God thinks testing childrens faith by letting the Holy person they put their trust in r a p e them is a good idea and builds charachter...
I wonder if the priests think that they are just filling the little boys with "holy spirit?"
GodPot
Again you have confused God with man or Satan. There is an obvious difference. Please use a small g when referring the god you make up. God does not do or think the way you make out. The God of Abraham was best reflected in Jesus. If God was to stop the terrible things you say God would never have created man in the first place. No God Pot end of discussion.
Ratzi'd investigate Jesus too. He was a "radical."
Jesus was radical yes...but he was Jewish. He has nothing to do with the catholic church.
There was a time when the origin of lightning was debated, and one side said it was their God and the other side said it was their God and people fought long and bloody wars in the names of Teshub, Indra, Taranis, Bayulgen, Thor, Huracan, Jupiter and Zeus and yet none of them had it right. What makes you any different when debating which doctrine or God or spirit is responsible for our origins then those people who had so much faith in their belief they were willing to give their lives in defense of it. Does strength of belief have anything to do with veracity of a claim? I think the answer would be obvious to anyone with an IQ above 60 but it seems like there are millions of you who find no relation between your current faith and ancient humans faith in their invented Gods. You just keep thinking to yourself "They were silly ignorant people who believed what their priest class told them, but not me, I know truth when I hear it, and my priests would never lie to me for their own benefit..."
God Pot
What you miss is that the vast majority of humans from earliest recorded history sought out God. You make an assumption why they were seeking God without any basis in fact and without any evidence whatsoever to support your assumption. In short you just made up a line out of thin air to support your belief. The facts we know is virtually all sought after God and were willing to die after finding God. The facts we know is nothing has changed to date. The facts we know is that those who seek God according to their source find God provided they seek in earnest.
You have nothing to counter what is known and what is fact. Although atheists claim not to have a belief they all spout from the same basic atheist bible. That bible lists the same old tired arguments against God, the Hebrew Bible and believers. Satan, Dawkins or the Collective function as much as a god as say the Hebrew God, your source code or atheist bible functions the same as the Hebrew Bible and the Collective (atheists) function much as believers. In short I am saying you are correct there have been many gods over the years and you should not count yours as any more different or any more divine then those of us with IQ’s fewer than 60.
Good thing the Catholic church is irrelevant, otherwise this could be a problem
really? because the largest sect of Christianity doesn't really matter...right?
Largest sect my just counting heads. Most Catholics don't know what the Catholic church stands for and the ones that figure it out leave in droves. It's irrelevant because there is no cohesive message that allows that church to turn numbers into influence.
it will be solved soon when Our Saviour arrives.
HA HA HA HA HA!
Why do you think he's returning? He wasn't nailed to a boomerang.
You mean Santorum? He's just dropped out.
i was right about christian antisemtism, marsha who commenst on here has shown us this. We are praying for her and Forgive her.
God does NOT like your people anyway...... you are no longer God´s "chosen" people since you denied Christ and made the Roman kill him
Marsha, does you god really want you to act like this? Oh, he died and left you the spokesperson position. My bad.
Marsha,
Shhhhhh you are making rational thinking Christians look bad. 🙂
I guess the Vatican hasn't read the Bible: Judge not that ye not be judged...Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
What is more imporant than reading the Bible is understanding it. You have a bit of a problem with reading and comprehension.
Ah, Gerald, you were appointed Chief Interpreter. You are truly the Chosen One... oh, and Mr. Congeniality, too! Congrats.
With tens of thousands of different xtian denominations and much room for dissent and differing opion within those denominations, why do you think you, @gerald, happen to understand it correct? Why are you better than everyone else?
facepalm
Why are you better than everyone else? You have a core belief as do Christians or Witches. In case you have not noticed everyone must think their belief is correct in order to act out on it. So welcome to the human race you are a unique individual just like everyone else.
someone should seriously "blast" the Roman Catholic Church. All religion for that matter. the pope and his protection of pedophiles, the fact he sits on a golden throne and demands pious behaviour from his followers... ugh. disgusting.
But they have really cool hats.
If only the church put this much effort into investigating child abuse by priests!!! Nuns have been one of the few untarnished areas of the church. Bad pr move and so very sad for the nuns who already tolerated such unacceptable inequality. I cannot support a doctrine that holds that I am inherently inferior in G-d's eyes.