Catholic activists want Pope Francis to match words with actions

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Sister Teresa Forcades and other left-leaning religious leaders welcome new papal rhetoric but wonder about substance

by Lisa De Bode | February 19, 2014 | 7:00AM ET

From her small convent in the mountains near Barcelona, Harvard-educated Sister Teresa Forcades has emerged as a leading advocate of Spain’s “Indignant” protest movement. {Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images}

Spanish revolutionary, Harvard-educated public health specialist, abortion rights advocate and Roman Catholic nun.

These four labels seldom apply to the same person, but Sister Teresa Forcades, a 48-year-old woman from Barcelona, straddles many worlds.

In Europe she is the star of televised debates on feminism and religion, a leader of the Occupy movement in Spain who has taken on big corporate interests and a fierce critic of modern capitalism.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/19/spanish-nun-straddlesmanyworlds.html

Keep your eye on Sister Teresa. Her voice is sorely needed.

She pulls no punches with her views. “I don’t think it is possible to have democracy and capitalism. They go against each other because the way we live capitalism is that we allow some corporations to have such power that they are able to influence government. And that’s the problem,” she told Al Jazeera in an interview.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Forcades