Results of visitation of women religious quietly submitted

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

Three years after its announcement caused a mixture of anxiety, anger and resentment among many sisters, the results of a Vatican-initiated apostolic visitation of U.S. women religious have been quietly submitted to Rome.

News of the submission came in a press release from the visitation’s U.S. office Jan. 9.

According to Catholic News Service, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesperson, confirmed Jan. 10 that the Vatican’s congregation for religious life had received the reports and “is now studying them.”

Sr. Kieran Foley, the communications liaison for the visitation’s U.S. office, told NCR her office does not have a comment on the submission. The next steps for the investigation are “entirely up to the [Vatican] congregation,” she said.

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