VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Apr. 16, 2015
VATICAN CITY A controversial three-year program of Vatican oversight of the main leadership group of U.S. Catholic sisters has come to a curt and unexpected end, with the sisters and the church’s doctrinal office announcing that the goal of the oversight “has been accomplished.”
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has accepted a final report of the doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, “marking the conclusion” of the oversight, the Vatican announced Thursday.
After a lengthy process that saw the saw the Vatican issue what the sisters called unsubstantiated sharp critiques of their work and life while appointing Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain to oversee a program of reform for LCWR, Thursday’s release says the Vatican and the sisters both noted the “spirit of cooperation” of the ordeal.
The end of the mandate, the Vatican release says, came in a meeting Thursday morning between LCWR officers, Sartain, and officials of the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation. Saratin and the LCWR officers presented a joint report on the implementation of the mandate, which was approved by the doctrinal congregation.
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