VATICAN CITY
BBC News
Leaders of the largest group of US nuns are due to meet Vatican officials in a bid to defuse an escalating row.
A Vatican report in April accused the nuns of adopting “certain radical feminist themes” and of ignoring official church teaching.
Nuns from the group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, say they have been unjustly criticised.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said they hoped to forge a “mutual understanding” with the nuns.
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