RedTracker| Maureen Dowd’s column The Nuns’ Story, is winning praise and criticism today.

We wrote last July about the investigation into American nuns by the Vatican: A ‘Beyond the Veil’ Look at American Nuns Launched By Vatican. Dowd takes up this’inquisition’ and also the patriarchal mentality of Pope Benedict.

Nuns who took Vatican II as a mandate for reimagining their mission “started to look uppity to an awful lot of bishops and priests and, of course, the Vatican,” said Kenneth Briggs, the author of “Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns.”