Nun: 'We agree with our bishops'!

Nun: ‘We agree with our bishops’!

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

The nun’s short speech got less attention than the rousing address by former President Bill Clinton, or the cutting remarks by Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, but in her own way, Sister Simone Campbell said something remarkable at the Democratic National Convention.

Campbell, one of the so-called Nuns on the Bus who have toured the country this summer, declared that nuns agreed with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Continue reading

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