Nuns' fight with Vatican highlights Catholicism's global struggle

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6. One of my best teacher friends back when, whose classroom was nextdoor to mine, a history teacher,

was a Lesbian ex-nun, who used to say that the basic deal is the 10 Commandments and all of the other do -s and don't -s are just Jewish social law.

As far as what makes a Catholic a Catholic, Catholic dogma, it's all in the Nicene Creed. I keep asking around for the dogma on sexual orientation, female ordination, and birth control and the other issues (that our bishop here has tried to deny the likes of Kathleen Sebelius Communion on) and as yet no one has produced it.

Here's a kind of independent source on Catholic issues, The National Catholic Reporter http://ncronline.org/ https://www.facebook.com/NCRonline located here in Kansas City, I have heard their speakers at conferences and they are Liberals on Social and Economic Justice. They were about the ONLY source on the story about the Pope's survey that he sent out to all of the women's religious orders a few years ago, to which most of them responded, TTE: "If you want to know something about us, read our Charter (the cannonical document that makes them religious orders in the first place)." I think they did eventually go ahead and comply with the pope's demand for information though.

NCR has also been following the story about the pope and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.