U.S. Catholic nuns face Vatican probe
Photo credit: Newsday / Photo by Danielle Finkelstein | Amityville, NY: Twin sisters and nuns Ascension, left, and Jonathan Lynch, both 82, attend Mass at The Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville. (Sept. 3, 2009)
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Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville
For 156 years, the Dominican nuns based in Amityville have run schools, staffed hospitals and ministered to the poor, the infirm and the lonely.
Now, like Catholic nuns across the United States, they find themselves the focus of an investigation by the Vatican, and this month they will begin receiving questionnaires on their prayer lives, missions and finances. In an unprecedented move, Rome...
