BANFIELD: You ever hear that whole thing, say it to my face? All right. Maybe the U.S. nuns who are meeting today with the Vatican higher ups aren't going to use those exact words. It's more or less the message they're bringing. Leadership Conference of Women Religious is responding in private to a rare public scolding they got from the Vatican enforcers back in April. After a long investigation, the church accused its American sisters of, quote, "serious doctrinal problems" stemming from, quote, "radical feminist themes, incompatible with the Catholic faith." The church is scolding the nuns for not campaigning against abortion and same-sex marriage as vocally as the bishops might like them to. This morning, on CNN's "Starting Point," a U.S. nun and broadcaster said the Vatican is living in the past.</s>SISTER MAUREEN FIEDLER, U.S. NUN & HOST, INTERFAITH VOICES: Unfortunately, I think that the officials at the Vatican seem entrenched in what I would call a pre-Vatican model of church, which is really dictatorial, non-collaborative and so forth. I think the American church, by and large, has embraced the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, which puts emphasis, which we do, as nuns, on social justice, on the needs of the poor, on relieving the plight of the oppressed or helping victims of violence around the world. Those are the kinds of concerns we bring to this church.</s>BANFIELD: That's that. She said it. The sisters met among themselves before the sent their leaders off to Rome. The called the Vatican's processes, quote, "flawed," its findings, quote --
U.S. Nuns Scolded by Vatican