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The Current | Mar 12, 2013 | 24:00

What women can teach the Church

With the Cardinals cloistered in the Sistine Chapel, the debate far from Vatican City among the faithful but skeptical is not Who should be Pope but what change a new Pope might bring. Today, we hear from an activist nun who argues the Cardinals should take their cues from the Women Religious.

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