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Vatican Insider

The Vatican’s inspection of the female religious institutes in the U.S.A has softened

Giacomo Galeazzi
Vatican City

Three years ago, the former cardinal Franc Rodé, Prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life had started the inspections to look into the “styles of life” of nuns in the United States. After the Vatican received reports of serious problems of doctrinal disobedience and failure to adhere to the Catholic Church’s Magisterium, Cardinal Rodé entrusted Mary Clare Millea, the American mother superior of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with the task of shedding light on the issue. Proof of this “ultra-liberal” drift was the fact that U.S. convents were pointing out groups of nuns who were giving the “go-ahead” to Obama’s health reforms which included women’s right to abortion. Visitations proceeded amid the protests of some nuns’ associations who complained of…