On 5/4/2012 8:47 AM,
lucreti...@fl.it wrote:
>
> Why would the vatican take this stance and yet uphold the archbishop
> in Ireland who knew about and condoned child sexual abuse for years
> without reporting it ? This pope truly stands behind the evil doers
> in his church.
>
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17766615
>
>
> The Vatican has ordered a crackdown on a group of American nuns that
> it considers too radical.
>
> It says the group is undermining Roman Catholic teaching on
> homosexuality and is promoting "feminist themes incompatible with the
> Catholic faith".
>
> The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is the largest
> organisation of Catholic nuns in the US.
>
> An archbishop has been appointed to oversee its reform to ensure that
> it conforms to Catholic prayer and ritual.
>
> The Leadership Conference, which is based in Maryland, represents
> about 57,000 nuns and offers a wide range of services, from leadership
> training for women's religious orders to advocacy on social justice
> issues.
>
> The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the nuns'
> organisation faced a "grave" doctrinal crisis.
>
> It said issues of "crucial importance" to the church, such as abortion
> and euthanasia, had been ignored.
>
> Vatican officials also castigated the group for making some public
> statements that "disagree with or challenge positions taken by the
> bishops", who are the church's "authentic teachers of faith and
> morals."
>
> The review will include an examination of ties between the Leadership
> Conference and Network, a Catholic social justice lobby.
>
> Network played a key role in supporting the Obama administration's
> health care overhaul despite the bishops' objections that the bill
> would provide government funding for abortion.
>
> The Leadership Conference disagreed with the bishops' analysis of the
> law and also supported President Barack Obama's plan.
>
> A Vatican report into the group suggested that they "collectively take
> a position not in agreement with the church's teaching on human
> sexuality."
>
> In its presentations investigators noted "a prevalence of certain
> radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."
>
> The investigation also found that the group has been "silent on the
> right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is
> part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the
> United States".
It's just Galileo all over again, and again. :)
Catholicism is a joke. Well, all religions are really.