UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Joshua J. McElwee on Jun. 18, 2012 NCR Today
A meeting last week between Vatican officials and leaders of the organization representing most U.S. women religious was “difficult” because of “differing perspectives” the two sides have over a harsh Vatican critique of the sisters’ group, the organization said in a statement Monday morning.
The statement, issued by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), is the first from the group since a meeting in Rome June 12 between its leaders and Cardinal William Levada, the head of the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
It was that congregation which in April ordered LCWR, which represents some 80 percent of U.S. women religious, to revise its statutes, programs and affiliations and place itself under the authority of Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain.
Monday’s statement says that following their meeting with Levada and Sartain, LCWR’s president, Franciscan Sr. Pat Farrell, and executive director, St. Joseph Sr. Janet Mock, spoke to LCWR board members June 15 about the event.
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