ROME
Irish Central
By
DARA KELLY,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Sunday, May 6, 2012
Controversial former Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard F. Law reportedly pressed the Vatican to investigate the largest association of Catholic nuns in the United States, according to Boston.com.
On April 18, the Vatican announced its initiative to ensure U.S. nuns conform to Church doctrine.
The Vatican has accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which is based in Silver Spring, Md., and represents about 57,000 nuns, of undermining Roman Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality.
Robert Mickens, a columnist for The Tablet, a British Catholic weekly, reported that the Vatican’s crackdown was petitioned by Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori and that Law was “the person in Rome most forcefully supporting Bishop Lori’s proposal.”
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