(ANSA) - Vatican City, April 15 - Pope Francis is continuing
the Church's critical position on the majority of American nuns
for deviating from official Catholic doctrine, the Vatican said
Monday.
Gerhard Mueller, prefect of Church orthodoxy watchdog
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, met with directors
from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which
represents more than 80% of American nuns.
In April last year the LCWR was chided in a Vatican report
for allegedly promoting "radical feminist themes" and devoting
too much time to social justice while remaining unacceptably
quiet on the Church's opposition to birth control and same-sex
marriage.
On Monday, Mueller said he recently discussed the report
with the pope, "who reaffirmed its conclusions and the reform
plan for LCWR".
The reforms, which included getting the group's statutes
and by-laws in line with official Vatican doctrine, have been
put off by LCWR leaders, who have cited a need to have a further
ecclesial dialogue with the Holy See.
