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**Lkemybab** · 05-19-2012, 10:36 PM

Vatican’ seems to have changed stance on American Roman Catholic nuns. Vatican rhad eprimanded US Catholic nuns’ group, Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), founded in 1956, last month for reportedly raising the subject of ordination of women and other issues. But on May 18, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI praised the American nuns.

Meeting with the final group of US Bishops on their ad limina Vatican visits, Pope reportedly said: “I wish to reaffirm my deep gratitude for the example of fidelity and self-sacrifice given by many consecrated women in your country, and to join them in praying that this moment of discernment will bear abundant spiritual fruit for the revitalization and strengthening of their communities…”

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Lkemybab Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	Vatican’ seems to have changed stance on American Roman Catholic nuns. Vatican rhad eprimanded US Catholic nuns’ group, Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), founded in 1956, last month for reportedly raising the subject of ordination of women and other issues. But on May 18, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI praised the American nuns. Meeting with the final group of US Bishops on their ad limina Vatican visits, Pope reportedly said: “I wish to reaffirm my deep gratitude for the example of fidelity and self-sacrifice given by many consecrated women in your country, and to join them in praying that this moment of discernment will bear abundant spiritual fruit for the revitalization and strengthening of their communities…”
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