ST. LOUIS (MO)
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
Editorial
We know the 900 Sister leaders representing 320 religious communities at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) have a full plate for their meetings that begins today in St. Louis.
We don’t think anything on the plate should keep the Sisters from opening the door to the survivors that will be outside the hotel where they are meeting.
The Sisters are made of strong stuff. Plenty of Catholics have attested to that in the public discussions in both the religious and secular news media regarding the Vatican and the Sisters, before, during and after the recent Nuns Bus Tour, as well as in multitudes of private conversations.
We are not saying that the support is not justified.
We are saying that the Sisters, to date, have chosen the Bishops’ route for the most part in dealing with sexual abuse by their members: silence and lawyering up.
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