Sartain - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:57:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sartain - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Nuns leave Vatican and return home to consider next move https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/15/nuns-leave-vatican-consider-next-move/ Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:33:55 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=27585

Accused of promoting radical feminism and promoting social issues incompatible with the Church, United States Leadership Committee of Women Religious President Sister Pat Farrell and Executive Director Sister Janet Mock said they "were grateful for open dialogue" with Cardinal William Levada, and Archbishop Peter Sartain, on Wednesday. The nuns, who requested the meeting, told Reuters Read more

Nuns leave Vatican and return home to consider next move... Read more]]> Accused of promoting radical feminism and promoting social issues incompatible with the Church, United States Leadership Committee of Women Religious President Sister Pat Farrell and Executive Director Sister Janet Mock said they "were grateful for open dialogue" with Cardinal William Levada, and Archbishop Peter Sartain, on Wednesday.

The nuns, who requested the meeting, told Reuters their next step was to return to the United States and consider their next move.

Leaving the Vatican the two nuns seemed confident, "we'll take it one step at a time," Farrell (pictured on the right) told a Reuters' reporter.

The Vatican, who on Tuesday said it hoped the meeting would bring about "reciprocal understanding" but also according to John Allen of NCR, warned of a possible "dialogue of the deaf".

In a statement after the meeting the Vatican said, the meeting provided an opportunity to "discuss the issues and concerns raised by the doctrinal assessment in an atmosphere of openness and cordiality."

However, Vatican said, Levada and Sartain reinforced to the nuns that their group "remains under the supreme direction of the Holy See".

In April, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which Cardinal Levada heads, issued a blistering report on the LCWR, which represents some 80% of the more than 60,000 American Catholic nuns.

The assessment was issued after a Vatican investigation, lasting four years, determined the nuns had "serious doctrinal problems" and they promoted "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."

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Bishop Leonard Blair is one of the three bishops (the other two being Bishop Thomas Paprocki and Archbishop J. Peter Sartain), that made up the committee formed by the Holy See to undertake the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR. Bishop Blair says that since the assessment has been completed he "can only marvel at what is Read more

The LCWR, CDF and the doctrinal assessment... Read more]]> Bishop Leonard Blair is one of the three bishops (the other two being Bishop Thomas Paprocki and Archbishop J. Peter Sartain), that made up the committee formed by the Holy See to undertake the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR.

Bishop Blair says that since the assessment has been completed he "can only marvel at what is now being said, both within and outside the Church, regarding the process and the recent steps taken by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) to remedy significant and longstanding doctrinal problems connected with the activities and programs of the LCWR".

He concludes, though, that he is "confident ... that if the serious concerns of the CDF are accurately represented and discussed among all the sisters of our country, there will indeed be an opening to a new and positive relationship between women religious and the Church's pastors in doctrinal matters ..."

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