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Why You Should Care That The Vatican Is Going After American Nuns, Even If You're Not Religious (Click here to read more)

By Emily Baxter, Guest Contributor on May 9, 2014 at 12:08 pm
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In the latest development of the long-running saga between American Nuns and Rome, the Vatican released a statement on Monday that rebuked the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the largest overseeing organization of the 50,000 American Catholic nuns. In addition to reiterating criticisms of the sisters' education in and exploration of new theological movements, this time the sisters were also in trouble for honoring a theologian who is not in favor with Rome.
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The rebuke comes from Cardinal Muller, the head of the Vatican organization charged with ensuring adherence to Catholic teachings, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) - or, as it was known 500 years ago, the Inquisition. The statement is dated April 30, around the time when he met with the heads of the LCWR and their Vatican-appointed watchdog, Seattle's Archbishop Sartain.
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Notably, he says, he was "saddened" to learn that the sisters were not following their directive to have their annual conference's speakers and award grantees approved by Rome. In the statement, Muller highlights that the LCWR gave an award to a theologian, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, whose work - according to the CDF - holds doctrinal errors.
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Tensions have been building between the Vatican and LCWR since 2012, when the Vatican accused the LCWR's members of "radical feminism," and a tendency to social justice work over speaking out against abortion and gay people.
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In the Church's official view, the LCWR is thinking, learning, speaking, and promoting ideas that are a little too "out there" for the Vatican. On this point, though, Emma Green at the Atlantic has noted that the words and ideas for which the Vatican has criticized the LCWR were in a larger context of garden-variety Catholic faith.