SPRINGFIELD (IL)
The State Journal-Register
By STEVEN SPEARIE
The State Journal-Register
Springfield Bishop Thomas John Paprocki is one of three U.S. Catholic bishops tapped to address what the Vatican says are “serious doctrinal problems” in views espoused by the leadership body representing the majority of the country’s nuns.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, founded in 1956, represents 83 percent of the nearly 56,000 women religious in the United States.
Its leader, in a speech in 2007, talked of some religious “moving beyond the church or even beyond Jesus” — a statement Paprocki described as “pretty radical.”
The delegation of bishops, appointed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after a four-year review, will be led by Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain, who served as bishop of the Joliet diocese from 2006 to 2010. Paprocki, who has been bishop of Springfield since 2010, was tapped for his acumen in church law. The third member is Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, Ohio, who carried out the original inquiry.
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