ROME
The Tablet (UK)
7 May 2013
Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, head of the Vatican congregation that deals with religious orders, has criticised the way the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith carried out a controversial investigation of a body representing more than eighty per cent – 46,000 – of US nuns.
The Brazilian cardinal spoke on Sunday at the tri-annual general assembly of the Rome-based International Union of Women Superiors General (UISG), telling the women leaders he was never consulted on the investigation into the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Cardinal Braz said that his office first learned of the move against the LCWR in a meeting with the CDF after the formal report on the matter had been completed. He said he told Cardinal William Levada, who was then-prefect of the doctrinal congregation, that the matter should have been discussed between their two Vatican offices.
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