Amityville nun questions Vatican crackdown
Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Sister Mary Hughes stands inside the chapel of The Dominican Sisters of Amityville. (June 8, 2012)
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Nuns across the United States are fighting back against a controversial Vatican crackdown on their main leadership organization, and one of the group's heads -- a religious sister with the Dominican order in Amityville -- is helping to lead the charge.
Sister Mary Hughes, immediate past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, said she was stunned by the recent Vatican report...
