UNITED STATES
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests will meet in St. Louis June 23-26.
On June 12, the AUSCP released details of a letter written to Pope Francis, expressing sadness and dismay at the Vatican response to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
June 12, 2014
The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests has written to Pope Francis to express “sadness and dismay” at the release of comments by a Vatican official regarding the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The letter was sent June 2 to Pope Francis, and signed by the AUSCP president, Father David Cooper of Milwaukee, and also by the AUSCP board members.
In their letter to the pope, the priests noted that the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith published on April 30 the “introductory observations” of Cardinal Gerhard Muller, but did not release “any aspects of the subsequent discussion.”
Those discussions were characterized by LCWR as “honest, respectful, and engaging” during which the LCWR leadership was able to “offer responses that illuminated some of the perceptions about the LCWR held by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,” the priests said.
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