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• Correction: Church Abuse-Religious Order story
• Pope Francis supports crackdown on US nuns
• Nigeria violence worries US religious commission
• Pope stands firm on reforming "radical feminist" U.S. nuns

Correction: Church Abuse-Religious Order story Posted: 15 Apr 2013 01:24 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — In an April 14 story about confidential personnel files on Roman Catholic religious order priests, The Associated Press reported erroneously that such clergy were loaned out to the Los Angeles Archdiocese to relieve priest shortages. Religious order priests were assigned to work in the archdiocese in many capacities.

Pope Francis supports crackdown on US nuns Posted: 15 Apr 2013 12:15 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See's crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mirrored the nuns' own social outreach would take a different approach than his predecessor.

Nigeria violence worries US religious commission Posted: 15 Apr 2013 11:03 AM PDT LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has warned that ongoing violence between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria exposes the country's "failure to effectively deal" with the unrest.

Pope stands firm on reforming "radical feminist" U.S. nuns Posted: 15 Apr 2013 08:44 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has reaffirmed the Vatican's criticism of a body that represents U.S. nuns which the Church said was tainted by "radical" feminism, dashing hopes he might take a softer stand with the sisters. Francis's predecessor, Benedict, decreed that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a group that represents more than 80 percent of the 57,000 Catholic nuns in the United States, must change its ways, a ruling which the Vatican said on Monday still applied. ...

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