VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
May. 02, 2012
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Recent Vatican investigations of religious women have created opportunities for growth through reflection and for dialogue with their bishops, two U.S. bishops said after discussing the matter with Vatican officials.
Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, N.M., and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., told Catholic News Service May 2 that they had discussed the Vatican visitation of U.S. communities of religious women and the more recent order to reform the Leadership Conference of Women Religious earlier the same day with officials from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Archbishop Sheehan said that during the meeting, attended by bishops from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming, who were making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican, “the point that was made was that although some people were unhappy with the decision to make corrections” in the LCWR, it would be “an opportunity for dialogue” between the religious and the bishops.
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