Jason Berry

American Nuns Congregate As Standoff With Vatican Officials Continues

Two years after the nuns were accused of “radical feminism” and assigned a male minder, will either side finally blink?

Jason Berry
By Jason Berry

When Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the superiors who represent 80 percent of American nuns, open their four-day summer convention Tuesday in Nashville, key members of the US Catholic hierarchy will be on hand, notably the Vatican-assigned overseer of the sisters’ group, Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain. The big question will be

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Scientists Revolt Against One Of Europe’s Most Ambitious Research Projects

Dissenters are threatening to boycott a $1.6 billion attempt to simulate the brain’s workings.

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By Jason Berry
Neelie Kroes

BERLIN, Germany — If it’s true, as the saying goes, that politics in academia are especially vicious because the stakes are so low, raising the ante doesn’t always seem to improve matters. At least that’s what an ongoing revolt by researchers against one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific projects appears to show. With $1.6 billion in funding

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Vatican At War With Nuns Over Thinking On Evolution

Pope Francis’s remarks have often sounded compatible with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of ‘conscious evolution.’ So why are American nuns in trouble for supporting it?

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By Jason Berry
Pope

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit and paleontologist who died a church outcast in New York City in 1955 at age 74. Vatican officials had suppressed his writings on sequential evolution in the universe. Teilhard was not officially a heretic, but rather a victim of church officials who were ignorant and fearful of

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