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Vatican’s use of term ‘radical feminist’ says more about cardinals than nuns they rebuke

June 7, 2012 By Lisa Miller

It surprises me a little that the men who run things at the Vatican did not use their most favorite recent pejorative – “feminist” — when they rapped the knuckles of Margaret Farley, a nun who has long been a professor at Yale, for having written a book about sex and love that condones masturbation (and as […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: feminism, Lisa Miller, radical feminism, Vatican

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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