VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee Biagio Mazza | Aug. 9, 2013
ROME
If U.S. Catholic sisters want to dialogue with the Vatican over a mandate requiring them to place themselves under the authority of a U.S. archbishop, they must understand that the “central point” of dialogue is upholding church doctrine, a key Vatican cardinal said in May.
The doctrinal problems identified with the main group of U.S. sisters, known as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), are “extremely important,” Cardinal João Braz de Aviz said.
“This is the central point of the dialogue,” Braz de Aviz said. “I have no idea how it will be resolved.”
Braz de Aviz, the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious, made his comments in May in Rome during a talk at the triennial meeting of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG), a membership group for approximately 2,000 leaders of Catholic sisters around the world.
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