Dissenting Nuns Reject Rome’s Plan

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR), which was recently put under direct control by the Vatican due to the group’s long history of dissent from Catholic teaching, has decided to reject Rome’s plan to reform the group into a more conservative mold, but stopped short of calling for an outright split from the Church.

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New Age Speaker to Offer Keynote Address at LCWR Assembly

Even though the group of dissident nuns known as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is now under the control of the Vatican, the group’s annual convention, scheduled for August and featuring New Age “visionary” Barbara Marx Hubbard, is being permitted to go forward.

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