{"id":29072,"date":"2012-04-20T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=29072"},"modified":"2012-04-20T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:30:20","slug":"vatican-cracks-down-on-radical-feminist-nuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/04\/20\/vatican-cracks-down-on-radical-feminist-nuns\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Cracks Down on &#8220;Radical, Feminist&#8221; Nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-042012\/2012_04_20_morris.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-042012\/2012_04_20_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50%  src=\"\/home\/graphics\/catholic_nuns.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The popular image of the Catholic nun as a deferential servant to the church was shattered this week when the Vatican announced that an investigation into the largest umbrella group of US nuns found it was promoting, &#8216;certain radical feminist themes.&#8217;  Through a statement posted on its website the presidency of the group, the Leadership Conference on Women Religious, said it was &#8220;stunned&#8221; by the Vatican&#8217;s conclusions. <\/p>\n<p>The Leadership Conference of Women Religious represents over 45,000 nuns. It describes its mission as being broad in scope, which includes, &#8220;[c]ollaborating in Catholic church and societal efforts that influence systemic change.&#8221; Two other church organizations, The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Leadership Conference, had complained about the LCWR in the past. They accused its leaders of, &#8220;collectively [taking] a position not in agreement with the church&#8217;s teachings on human sexuality.&#8221; The Vatican&#8217;s report criticized the group for being &#8220;silent&#8221; on the &#8220;right to life&#8221; and for promoting positions that contradicted the bishops, whom the Vatican called, &#8220;authentic teachers of faith and morals.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The AP reports that the Vatican&#8217;s investigation began in 2009 during the debates around healthcare reform, which the Catholic Bishops opposed but the LCWR and other Nun-led organizations supported. The LCWR will be subjected to a years-long reform effort overseen by a Seattle, Washington Archbishop.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Catherine Morris, a former Catholic nun and long-time member of the LA Catholic Worker. She has run the group&#8217;s 6th Street kitchen with her husband since the early 1970s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacatholicworker.org\">www.lacatholicworker.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular image of the Catholic nun as a deferential servant to the church was shattered this week when the Vatican announced that an investigation into the largest umbrella group of US nuns found it was promoting, &#8216;certain radical feminist themes.&#8217; Through a statement posted on its website the presidency of the group, the Leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}