The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests has written to Pope Francis to express “sadness and dismay” at the release of comments by a Vatican official regarding the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The letter was sent June 2 to Pope Francis, and signed by the AUSCP president, Father David Cooper of Milwaukee, and also by the AUSCP board members.
In their letter to the pope, the priests noted that the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith published on April 30 the “introductory observations” of Cardinal Gerhard Muller, but did not release “any aspects of the subsequent discussion.”
Those discussions were characterized by LCWR as “honest, respectful, and engaging” during which the LCWR leadership was able to “offer responses that illuminated some of the perceptions about the LCWR held by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,” the priests said.
“Because the Cardinal Prefect’s remarks were self-confessedly blunt, their release without any reference to LCWR’s views or any inclusion of the subsequent dialogue seems to us to have been a disservice to the process,” said Cooper and the AUSCP board members.
Citing published reports, the priests pointed out that the cardinal’s remarks “served as a public ‘rebuke’ of the LCWR” and a “chastising” of the leadership of women’s religious. The priests termed the cardinal’s words as “premature, one-sided public comment” and said that “A joint concluding statement after the discussions would have been more appropriate.”
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