LCWR 'stunned' by Vatican's latest move [View all]

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Source: National Catholic Reporter

The largest leadership organization for U.S. women religious says it was "stunned" by the announcement Wednesday that the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had ordered it to reform its statutes and had appointed an archbishop to oversee its revision.
"The presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was stunned by the conclusions of the doctrinal assessment of LCWR by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith," the group said in a news release Thursday morning.

According to the document from the congregation, Sartain is to be given authority over the group in five areas, including:
Revising LCWR statutes;
Reviewing LCWR plans and programs;
Creating new programs for the organization;
Reviewing and offering guidance on the application of liturgical texts; and
Reviewing LCWR's affiliations with other organizations, citing specifically NETWORK and the Resource Center for Religious Institutes.

The document from the congregation re-emphasizes the reason for the doctrinal assessment, writing that Levada told LCWR leadership in 2008 that the congregation had three major areas of concern with the group:
The content of speakers' addresses at the annual LCWR assemblies;
"Corporate dissent" in the congregation regarding the church's sexual teachings; and
"A prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith" present in some of the organizations programs and presentations.

Read more: http://ncronline.org/news/women-religious/lcwr-stunned-vaticans-latest-move

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The Sisters actually read, studied and followed the documents of Vatican II.

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I believe the Sisters are closer to understanding and following the teachings of Christ than the bishops.

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