I had a battle with someone about this so I read the original doc from the Vatican.
What I didn’t realize is that the LCWR and national organizations like it are of pontifical right. That means they are not independent entities...they only exist by specific permission of the Pope and remain under his immediate jurisdiction.
These nuns are not just independent citizens...they directly report to the Pope, so he has the right to correct and even disband them as required. Try founding a pro-life chapter of Planned Parenthood, or publicly disagreeing with Obama’s policies as a member of his Cabinet...see where that gets you.
The Catholic Universities/Colleges, as I understand it, are under the immediate authority of their local bishops. So yes, I’d like to see them taken to the woodshed as well, but that will have to be their bishops who do that.
The colleges have been effectively laizied, and are not under the direct control of the bishop, or even under the religious congregations that may have founded them. In a way, a university ought to be free, but, if I may refer to Newman, they are not Catholic unless the core of the institution is theology. In most “Catholic” schools today, it is incidental.