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Pope Francis reaffirms Vatican's punitive position on US nuns

Jason BerryApril 15, 2013 20:27

The pope's decision lets stand an investigation critics say is of dubious research, and which has been likened to a modern 'inquisition.'

Mother Tekla: The most powerful woman in Rome

Jason BerryMarch 5, 2013 07:01

ROME — If the leadership of American nuns is the vanguard of a progressive spirit up against the Vatican, Mother Tekla Famiglietti is a throwback to the past: an orthodox leader who learned the rules of the game and wields power in the all-male world of the Roman Curia.

On US-Mexico border, Catholic nuns offer migrants rare sanctuary

Kevin Douglas GrantDecember 18, 2012 05:18

NOGALES, Mexico — El Comedor is a small concrete structure where Roman Catholic nuns of the Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist welcome thousands of migrants deported from the United States back into Mexico through Nogales each year.

Theologian Hans Küng condemns pope's modern 'Inquisition'

Jason BerryDecember 18, 2012 05:20

Hans Küng and Joseph Ratzinger were the youngest and most influential progressives to advise bishops in Rome during Vatican II in the 1960s. Now they are at odds, and Küng sees Pope Benedict's effort to rein in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious as a failure of vision.

Bishops investigating US nuns have poor records on sex abuse cases

Jason BerryDecember 18, 2012 07:00

VATICAN CITY — Many sisters and priests see hypocrisy in the Vatican's pursuit of "radical" American nuns after a catastrophic failure to bring justice to victims of the global child sex abuse scandal.

A New Inquisition: The Vatican targets US nuns

Jason BerryDecember 18, 2012 03:28

The Vatican, under the rigidly conservative leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, opened an investigation earlier this year into the leadership of American nuns, accusing them of straying from Catholic doctrine on reproductive rights, homosexuality and the role of women.