Vatican Probe of U.S. Nuns Moves Quietly Forward

The Vatican's investigation of American nuns enters its second year, with few nuns willing to openly discuss what they think about it.

Numerous requests for interviews by Women's eNews were declined, both by nuns who oppose the investigation and those who support it.

But if the Catholic press is any guide, most leaders of religious orders are opposed to the investigation that a church authority in Rome has said concerns irregularities or omissions in American religious life.

In November, Cardinal Franc Rode, head of the Vatican's council on religious life, told Vatican Radio what prompted the probe. "Most of all, you could say, it involves a certain secular mentality that has spread in these religious families and, perhaps, also a certain 'feminist' spirit."

Many Catholics take comments like that to mean that the process is meant to examine how religious orders have interpreted Vatican II, the prominent church council convened by Pope John XXIII in the 1960s that revolutionized the modern church.

http://www.womensenews.org/story/religion/100209/vatican-probe-us-nuns-moves-quietly-forward

OOOOOooooo, can't have THAT now, can we?

I know a lot of nuns, they are fabulous women. kick ass women. they will thumb their noses at the vatican if they start messing with them.

edit to add THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY WRONG WITH THE HEADLINE OF ' VATICAN PROBING NUNS'

from the 70's. Both teach at the University and give time to the community center.

...........n the decades that have followed, some nuns have replaced the traditional daily prayers, known as the breviary, with one that mentions more women. Some have opposed the church hierarchy's teachings on controversial issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage and women's ordination.

The Vatican's three-part investigation involves interviews with the heads of the religious orders, a questionnaire that covers many aspects of an order's religious life and on-site visits at certain orders.

Connecticut native Mother Mary Clare Millea, superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, heads the operation. Though the order's leadership council is headquartered in Rome, it has branches in 12 countries.
Loaded and Open Question

There are 67,000 nuns in the United States, according to the Leadership Conference for Women Religious, representative of about 95 percent of them.

How many oppose the investigation?

With both sides of the investigation wanting to say they speak for the majority of American nuns, that's a loaded and open question.

catholic church is already losing customers...they sure dont need to be messing with the nuns.

madness