{"id":5855,"date":"2012-04-20T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:25:38","slug":"radical-feminist-nuns-in-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/20\/radical-feminist-nuns-in-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Radical feminist&#8221; nuns in the North Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5856\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/20\/radical-feminist-nuns-in-the-north-country\/benedict\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5856\" title=\"benedict\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/benedict.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/benedict.jpg 184w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/benedict-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve probably been hearing that the Vatican has sharply rebuked the organization that represents roughly 80% of the nuns within the Roman Catholic church, including those serving here in the Diocese of Ogdensburg.\u00a0 This from the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a stinging report on Wednesday, the Vatican said the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcwr.org\/about\">Leadership Conference of Women Religious <\/a>had  been \u201csilent on the right to life\u201d and had failed to make the \u201cBiblical  view of family life and human sexuality\u201d a central plank in its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It also reprimanded American nuns for expressing positions on  political issues that differed, at times, from views held by U.S.  bishops. Public disagreement with the bishops \u2014 \u201cwho are the church\u2019s  authentic teachers of faith and morals\u201d \u2014 is unacceptable, the report  said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An archbishop from the West Coast has been charged with &#8220;reforming&#8221; the organization.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time when nuns in the North Country are being asked to serve bigger, more influential roles, due to the shortage of priests.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Have nuns strayed from the path?\u00a0 Is a course correction needed?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this an overreach, and a sign of continuing tensions within the American Roman Catholic church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably been hearing that the Vatican has sharply rebuked the organization that represents roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20,4790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}