Vatican representative says she faced resistance in probe of US women's religious orders
December 15, 2014
Mother Mary Clare Millea, who was appointed by the Vatican to conduct an apostolic visitation of women’s religious orders in the US, has acknowledged that she faced lively resistance to her efforts.
Writing the The Tablet about her investigation, Mother Mary Clare said that the enjoyed the “complete trust” of the Congregation for Religious, which had authorized the work. But she reports that many of the religious orders she questioned were suspicious of her work.
The results of the Vatican’s investigation will be released tomorrow, December 16. Mother Mary Clare reports that she and her chosen collaborators visited dozens of religious communities and met with 266 of the 341 superiors general in the US as part of their work.
Her work was one of two separate inquiries into the women's religious communities of the US. The other, conducted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, focused on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and produced a mandate for reforms that are still in progress.
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Posted by: DrJazz -
Dec. 16, 2014 7:45 AM ET USA
Despite all the secular media reports about the apostolic visitation, who would have known that the person conducting it was a woman? Or that there were actually two separate investigations? The secular media's message was along the lines of "Autocratic Pope sends insensitive, out-of-touch, heavy-handed, dogmatic, celibate men to US shores to harass gentle, peace-loving nuns and force them back into rigid Catholic practices."
