SEATTLE (WA)
Seattle PI
[Congregatio Pro Doctrina Fidei]
By JOEL CONNELLY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
The Vatican on Wednesday gave Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain the job of imposing discipline and adherence to dogma on America’s largest organization of Catholic nuns, making it toe the line to “the teachings and discipline of the Church.”
A Vatican document praised the women religjous for promoting social justice, but said they have not spoken out on issues of abortion and human sexuality.
In an eight-page “Assessment” from the Congregration for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican said that it found “serious doctrinal problems,” instances of disagreement with the Church’s bishops, and charged nuns with promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
The target of the Vatican’s probe was the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which includes leaders of Catholic women’s religious orders in the United States representing more than 80 percent of America’s 57,000 nuns.
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