Vatican denies divisions over nun crackdown
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican denies there were any internal divisions over its crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns after a top Vatican official complained that the Holy See’s reform project had caused him “much pain.”
The head of the Vatican’s office for religious orders, Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, was quoted last weekend as saying his office wasn’t consulted or even advised by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about its decision to overhaul the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 percent of American sisters.
The congregation last year placed the Leadership Conference under the authority of a U.S. bishop after determining that the sisters took positions that undermined Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
Feds investigating Utah church incident
OGDEN, Utah – Federal officials are investigating after a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a church in Ogden.
The Deseret News reports the device was thrown into a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sometime Sunday night.
Ogden Fire Department Deputy Chief Eric Bauman says the remains of the failed weapon were found Monday morning by a maintenance worker. Bauman says it caused about $1,000 in damage to the kitchen of the church.
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are getting involved because the target was a church. The Ogden City Fire Marshal also is investigating.
Associated Press
