Vatican and US nuns - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 17 May 2012 04:37:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Vatican and US nuns - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Nuns on the frontier https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/18/nuns-on-the-frontier/ Thu, 17 May 2012 19:32:58 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=25592

In the view of the Vatican, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the US has espoused "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith." Disagreements between American nuns and the hierarchy of the Church are part of US Church history, according to Anne M. Butler. In an article in the New York Times, Ms Read more

Nuns on the frontier... Read more]]> In the view of the Vatican, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the US has espoused "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith." Disagreements between American nuns and the hierarchy of the Church are part of US Church history, according to Anne M. Butler.

In an article in the New York Times, Ms Butler outlines something of this history and points out that "some bishops, dismissive of the laity, underestimated the loyalty secular Catholics felt for their nuns".

 

 

Anne M. Butler is the author of the forthcoming book "Across God's Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920."

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