Vatikanet foretar en læremessig vurdering av kvinnelige kongregasjoner i USA
John Allen skrev sent i går kveld (nesten litt dramatisk må jeg si, det er alvorlige spørsmål det dreier seg om) om lederne i The Leadership Conference of Women Religious i USA, som i går møtte kardinal William Levada, leder av vatikanets troskongregasjon, etter å ha blitt informert noen uker tidligere om at deres organisasjon skulle gjennomgår en «læremessig vurdering». Og han skriver videre:
… The Vatican spokesperson, Fr. Federico Lombardi, confirmed to NCR that the meeting took place, describing it as “very serene,” and said that the officers of the conference “now have all the elements for understanding the nature of this initiative.” Any further comment, Lombardi said, should come from the sisters as they pass along the information to their members.
… In the absence of public statements about the motives and scope of the new inquiry, observers have raised three basic questions:
* What prompted the investigation?
* Why is it being sponsored by the Vatican, and why by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith?
* What are the possible outcomes?
Officials both in the Vatican and in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as sources in religious life, spoke to NCR about these questions on background, because the officials involved are not authorized to speak publicly.
… the fact that the leadership conference is now the target of a separate doctrinal inquiry is virtually unprecedented. Vatican officials told NCR that they are not aware of another case in which the congregation has conducted a doctrinal assessment of a national-level association of religious orders.
Regarding the motives for the review, one source with the U.S. bishops’ conference said the concern is “entirely” about speakers the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has invited to address their annual assemblies in recent years, based upon the texts of those presentations posted on the conference’s Web site.
Though this official did not cite specific speakers or topics of concern, Levada’s letter pointed to three areas of doctrine that he said the congregation first flagged in a 2001 meeting with officers of the leadership conference: the ordination of women, the theology of religious pluralism, and homosexuality. Most observers believe that a principal aim of the assessment is to ensure that future speakers at the conference’s assemblies will be screened for their positions on those issues. …
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