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USA Today
By Cara Matthews, The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News
OSSINING, N.Y. – As the Vatican accuses American nuns of spending too much time on human rights and helping the poor, some Catholic activists who support them are organizing vigils and petitions to persuade the church to change its mind.
“With the sisters, they’ve worked their fingers to the bone. They deserve more than this,” said Eileen Sammon, a parishioner at St. Ann’s Church here and a former Dominican nun. “They’re like a helicopter hierarchy hovering over the sisters instead of cleaning their own house,” referring to the continuing problem of priests’ sexual abuse of children.
Sammon is organizing a prayer vigil Tuesday in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with the hope that Cardinal Timothy Dolan will contact the Vatican and ask to have the reprimand rescinded.
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