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Adele Stan discusses the recent Vatican displeasure and effort to conrol the LCWR

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Adele Stan, the Washington Bureau Chief for Alter Net discusses the recent Vatican displeasure and efforts to control the LCWR- The Leadership Conference of Women Relgious-The LCWR is an umbrella organization of religious communities with 1500 members who represnet 80% of the Catholic Sisters in the United States..The Vtican reprimands the nuns for "focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping 'silent' on abotion and same sex-marriage. As punishment, the vatic...