FLORIDA
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Aug. 16, 2013
ORLANDO, FLA.
In his first address to representatives of U.S. Catholic sisters since his appointment in April 2012, the archbishop tasked by the Vatican to oversee their leadership group reportedly had little to offer regarding the reason for Vatican concern or how the process goes forward.
Leaving Thursday’s closed-door meeting between Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), several sisters said they felt frustration at the lack of detail given by the prelate nearly 19 months into his mandate.
Sartain met Thursday afternoon with some 825 LCWR members, who are representatives of orders of Catholic sisters around the county. The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has named the prelate the group’s “apostolic delegate” and given him wide power to revise its statutes and programs.
LCWR members were asked by the group’s leaders not to discuss Thursday’s meetings with members of the press. The doors into the convention hall where Sartain was speaking were locked with uniformed guards placed near them to prevent unauthorized entry.
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