Nuns 'voice concerns' at Rome talks

Nuns 'voice concerns' at Rome talks

THE TABLET

12 June 2012

The US body of nuns criticised in a recent Vatican report said that at their meeting today with officials in Rome they were able to directly express their concerns and would consult their members over what course of action to take next.
The president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Sr Pat Farrell, and executive director Sr Janet Mock, met Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), and Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain, who has been charged by Rome with overseeing the reform of the group. In April a CDF report recently criticised the group, whose members represent 80 per cent of the US's 60,000 nuns, as being too politicised and not sufficiently Christ-centred.
The Vatican said in a brief communiqué that issues and concerns raised by the report, or doctrinal assessment, were discussed "in an atmosphere of openness and cordiality". But it stressed that the LCWR was "constituted by and remains under the supreme direction of the Holy See". It defended the doctrinal assessment, saying its purpose had been to promote a vision of ecclesial communion founded on faith in Christ and church teaching.
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