that s not it s a hollow victory. what we really want to do is come together as a church. absolutely. sister, i wanted to follow-up on the issue of the reprimand. you know, one of the aspects of the reporting that really jumped out at me is obviously the movement within rome for the reprimand apparently came from americans who are in rome or have influence in rome. the name that jumped out at me who s been linked to this is cardinal law from boston. a lot of people might remember him from the sex abuse case a decade ago. he was moved to rome. some reporting said this was the investigation he was instrumental in launching that led to the reprimand. ic i wanted to ask you about the fallout. the vatican appointed a monitor for your group, a bishop from seattle. what has that done? what has that meant for what you can and can t do? okay. actually we need to make clear sh that network was named as a suspect organization for being in relationship with a leadership conference. leaders
affect low income families. in the guest spot today we have sister simone campbell who serves as executive director of network. sister simone, thank you so much for joining us. great to be with you. i have to start on a personal note. my mother was actually a nun for seven years in the 60s, and i have always had a view of nuns as sort of reformers and activists. she tells me stories about pushing her habit back to show some of her hair and cutting their skirts. that s always been my image of nuns. i m not sure that s generally the way the american public thinks of them. but i was wondering if you could talk about the sort of genesis of the nuns on the bus tour, what the goal was and how people responded to you all? well, we started this because the notoriety that the vatican gave us when they named us and censured the leadership conference of women religious. we re not used to having attention focused on us as nuns so we said, what could we do to further our mission? to really l
410,000 customers in west virginia didn t have power as of last night. ohio, 400,000 folks in ohio without. 340,000 in virginia, same deal there. power authorities and local governments say many of those people might be in the dark until this weekend. those people are going to have to deal with more soaring temperatures, 12 states under heat advisories this morning and the heat wave is forecast to last all week long. sandra endo is live in arlington, virginia, looks a bit of a mess behind you there. do people there have electricity? i m guessing not. reporter: not in this neighborhood, brook, it s been four days since the violent storm swept through this region. you can still see the devastation left behind. the power lines have downed because these toppled trees ripped the power lines from the tell phone poles and crushing car and struing debris about. this violent storm swept through this neighborhood. this area is without power as are tens of thousands of people sufferin
that s mitt romney showing that he knows how to stay out of trouble with the vatican. the vatican chastised the leadership conference of women religious, the largest group of catholic nuns for caring too much about the very poor and not spending enough time crusading against abortion and same-sex marriage. vatican spokesman rush limbaugh put it this way do you know what the nuns are doing? the nuns have gone feminazi on everybody. this group of nuns is gone feminist and the vatican is obviously, figure of speech, slapping them down. the vatican is trying to tamp it down and say no, no, that doesn t happen. there s no such thing as a feminist nun. okay, rush, let me tell you something. i had eight years of the sisters of st. joseph at st. brendan
that he knows how to stay out of trouble with the vatican. the vatican chastised the leadership conference of women religious, the largest group of catholic nuns for caring too much about the very poor and not spending enough time crusading against abortion and same-sex marriage. vatican spokesman rush limbaugh put it this way do you know what the nuns are doing? the nuns have gone feminazi on everybody. this group of nuns is gone feminist and the vatican is obviously, figure of speech, slapping them down. the vatican is trying to tamp it down and say no, no, that doesn t happen. there s no such thing as a feminist nun. okay, rush, let me tell you something. i had eight years of the sisters of st. joseph at st. brendan school in boston and that is not