UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Joshua J. McElwee | Nov. 9, 2012
NCR Today
The leaders of the group which represents the majority of U.S. Catholic sisters are to meet Sunday with three U.S. bishops appointed by the Vatican to oversee their organization.
Four officers of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents some 80 percent of women religious in the U.S., will meet with Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain, Springfield, Ill., Bishop Thomas Paprocki, and Toledo, Ohio, Bishop Leonard Blair.
Sartain, who met previously with the LCWR’s board following the group’s annual meeting in August, was appointed by the Vatican in April to be the group’s “archbishop delegate.”
In a formal report announcing the move April 18, known as a “doctrinal assessment,” the Vatican’s powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith alleged there was a “prevalence of certain radical feminist themes” in LCWR’s programs. It gave Sartain wide authority to revise LCWR’s statutes and review its plans and programs.
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