The Real Nun Victims

At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher writes that the news media, obsessed with the Vatican’s recent crackdown on some 57,000 American nuns involved in social justice work, has failed to address the plight of the majority of American Catholic Sisters who don’t belong to the “radical” Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). “The real victims are the faithful nuns who ought to have been protected and defended by the Vatican three decades ago, when the radicals who had no regard for the Roman Catholic faith were beginning their long and destructive march through the institutions.”

Read at The American Conservative

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