Tony Flannery

The LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious) held their annual gathering this week. They have been under investigation by the CDF (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) for over three years now, and the issue has come to a head, in that from now on they are being ordered to accept the jurisdiction of Archbishop Sartain over important decisions about how they conduct their business. How they respond to this will have major implications for the future of women religious worldwide.

“We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues. I see the world is rotten because of silence”
(Catherine of Siena)

In a few days time the leadership conference of women religious (LCWR)in the United States are having their annual gathering.
They are under enormous pressure from the Vatican. They have been ordered to accept the jurisdiction of Archbishop Sartain of Seattle, the man appointed by the Vatican for this purposes.