UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Aug. 19, 2013 NCR Today
The leadership of the main group representing U.S. Catholic sisters met this weekend with the archbishop appointed by the Vatican to oversee them and they had a “profound and honest sharing of views,” the group said in a statement Monday.
Representatives of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) were meeting with Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, who was appointed by the Vatican in April 2012 as the group’s “archbishop delegate” and given wide authority to revise its statutes and programs,
The prelate and the sisters met following LCWR’s annual assembly, which was held in Orlando, Fla., Aug. 13-16 and saw some 825 sisters, representatives of the country’s Catholic orders of sisters, attend. Sartain also attended the gathering and held a closed door, 90-minute meeting with the LCWR members Aug. 15.
While that closed-door meeting provided Sartain “little opportunity” to answer LCWR members’ questions, LCWR says in its Monday statement, the archbishop “had been listening intently and heard the concerns voiced by the members, and their desire for more information.”
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