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May 5, 2014

Vatican’s doctrine chief blasts U.S. nuns for disobedience

Sr. Carol Zinn addresses the Leadership Conference of Women Religious during its annual assembly in Orlando, Fla., last August Zinn was one of four LCWR leaders who recently met with Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Catholic nuns in the United States have been thumbing their nose at Rome’s demands to toe the doctrinal line and they need to obey or face serious consequences, the Vatican’s enforcer of orthodoxy said in a surprisingly tough talk to women representing most American sisters.

Published in Vatican