Bishop to sisters: Let's clear up 'misunderstandings'

[rug]

Aug 11, 2012
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
Updated 6m ago

Okay, let's talk, says Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to the nuns and sisters who have been rebuked by the Vatican.

In April, when the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was turned over to Sartain and two other U.S. bishops to revamp their management and programming, the women were stunned and dismayed.

Their choices seemed bleak: Withdraw and leave the LCWR, representing 80% of U.S. nuns and sisters as an empty shell, withdraw from the Church and take their social justice and service talents elsewhere, or go along.

On Friday, the LCWR concluded at their annual assembly in St. Louis that they could both stand up the the Vatican critique and sit down with Sartain.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2012/08/nuns-no-compromise-catholic-sartain/1#.UCZtSbW1hBl

Somebody blinked.

[cbayer]

1. I'm think that LCWR threatened them with something.

And it wasn't rulers to the hands.

Sartain has really backed down here.