Nun at center of Charlotte Catholic High controversy goes on leave

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By Tim Funk
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Posted: Monday, Apr. 07, 2014

The Dominican nun whose comments about sexuality caused a storm at Charlotte Catholic High School has cancelled all of her speaking engagements and is taking a sabbatical from her teaching post at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn.

In a statement on the college's web site, the school's president also wrote that Sister Jane Dominic Laurel went too far in part of her March 21 address to students at Charlotte Catholic High.

Sister Mary Sarah, the president, wrote that Laurel "spoke clearly on matters of faith and morals," as she is qualified to do as a theologian trained at a Pontifical University -- a school established or approved by the Vatican.

But, the president wrote, "her deviation into realms of sociology and anthropology was beyond the scope of her expertise."

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/04/07/4824737/nun-at-center-of-charlotte-catholic.html#.U0MhSP1OWtU

That last sentence just about sums it up.

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1. Best thing for her to do right now

Hopefully she can figure things out and come back a renewed and wiser person - we need more of those.