Pope Supports Crackdown on "Radical Feminist" U.S. Nuns

By Philip Pullella
Toronto Sun
April 15, 2013

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/15/pope-supports-crackdown-on-radical-feminist-us-nuns

Pope Francis has reaffirmed the Vatican’s criticism of a body that represents U.S. nuns which the Church said was tainted by “radical“ feminism, dashing hopes he might take a softer stand with the sisters.

Francis’s predecessor, Benedict, decreed that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a group that represents more than 8% of the 57,000 Catholic nuns in the United States, must change its ways, a ruling which the Vatican said on Monday still applied.

Last year, a Vatican report said the LCWR had “serious doctrinal problems” and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith”, criticising it for taking a soft line on issues such as birth control and homosexuality.