Episcopal Nuns Leave to Join Catholic Church

Religion News Service reports that 10 Maryland nuns - almost an entire religious community - converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism on Thursday (Sept. 3). The women said they decided to convert because their former denomination had become too liberal in its acceptance of homosexuality. The 10 members of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor will continue to live with two nuns who decided not to convert at their convent in Catonsville, Md. The community's chaplain, the Rev. Warren Tanghe, also converted on Thursday with the nuns. Members of the order had been considering conversion for seven years. Mother Christina Christie, superior of the order, told the Baltimore Sun: "We were drifting farther apart from the more liberal road the Episcopal Church is traveling. We are now more at home in the Roman Catholic Church."