UNITED STATES
Catholic World Report
May 10, 2013
By Catherine Harmon
This week saw several moments of high drama in the on-going (soap opera-like?) controversy involving the Vatican and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. To recap:
On Sunday, Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Religious, told a group women religious leaders that last year’s doctrinal assessment of the LCWR was conducted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith without consultation or input from the Congregation for Religious. According to the National Catholic Reporter, Cardinal Braz de Aviz said that the CDF assessment caused him “so much pain.” The assessment, which found “serious doctrinal problems” in LCWR materials and programs and which put Archbishop J. Peter Sartain in charge of revising and reviewing the group’s statutes and publications, was reaffirmed in its findings by Pope Francis, according to a statement released last month by the CDF.
From the NCR article:
[Cardinal Braz de Aviz] said that his office — which is tasked with overseeing the work an estimated 1.5 million sisters, brothers, and priests around the world in religious orders — first learned of the move against the U.S. sisters’ group in a meeting with the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after the formal report on the matter had been completed.
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