Recent attention to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is
expected to increase as almost 900 women religious will converge upon
St. Louis for the organization's annual assembly Aug. 7-11 at the
Millennium Hotel Downtown.
In April, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
announced a major reform of the LCWR, which has more than 1,500 members
of U.S. congregations of women religious. It currently
holds a canonical status that is granted by the Vatican.
The announcement was made at the end of a four-year doctrinal
assessment of the LCWR. An eight-page report indicated that the reform
was needed to "remedy significant and longstanding doctrinal problems
connected with the activities and programs of the LCWR," according to
Toledo, Ohio, Bishop Leonard Blair, who conducted the assessment and
wrote about it in his diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Chronicle.
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson will deliver the opening greeting at the assembly Tuesday evening, Aug. 7.
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