Vatican ends investigation of U.S. women religious
The Vatican on April 16 officially ended a seven-year investigation of American nuns with a compromise.
“We are pleased at the completion,” said Sister Sharon Holland, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in a statement released after a meeting in Rome with the Vatican’s top doctrinal officials. The investigation “involved long and challenging exchanges of our understandings of and perspectives on critical matters of religious life and its practice.”
The investigation of the LCWR, a network of 1,500 Catholic sisters that represents about 80 percent of the 50,000 nuns in the United States, began in 2008.
