WASHINGTON (DC)
Equities
PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Sister Mary Hughes of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an association representing about 80 percent of U.S. Catholic nuns, will discuss her organization’s dispute with the Vatican during a National Press Club Luncheon on Aug. 16 . The coalition’s national Assembly is taking place now through Aug. 10 in St. Louis. During this gathering, members are debating how to deal with a critical report issued this year by the Vatican, recommending that the nuns’ organization be overhauled by bishops — at the direction of the Holy See.
Sister Mary Hughes, past president of LCWR and Prioress of the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville, N.Y., will discuss the Leadership Conference’s mission and the results of its national Assembly event. In an interview on PBS last month, Sister Mary said there is a “profound sense of sadness” over the tension with the Vatican, but added that asking questions “does not mean we are against Church teaching.”
The Vatican began investigating LCWR over ecclesiastical and doctrinal issues and alleged radical feminism in 2008. The Vatican report released in April said the group was not speaking out strongly enough against abortion, gay marriage and the ordination of women. Many members of LCWR endorsed President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan in 2010.
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