THE SISTERS CRUSADE.

CATHOLIC Church & politics; CATHOLIC nuns; LIBERALISM; CHURCH & social problems; LEADERSHIP Conference of Women Religious of the United States; POLITICAL movements; ACTIVISTS; CAMPBELL, Simone, 1945-; POLITICAL participation; RELIGION

The article discusses a group of radical Catholic nuns called Network, led by the political and social activist Sister Simone Campbell, and their efforts to reform the Catholic Church as of November 2012, with a focus on the nuns' liberal agenda and their support for gay rights and abortion. Topics include the nuns' theological basis for their views; political actions of the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious; and the Vatican's opposition to the group's feminist agenda.