LCWR Archives

Sister Teresa Maya, new LCWR president, brings bicultural view to role
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 12, 2017
The new president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Sister Teresa Maya, is an American born in Mexico and with plenty of experience living in both countries. She is bringing that experience of knowing both cultures to leading an organization that works with an increasing number of Latinos.
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Sister Helen Garvey, former LCWR president, dies at 82
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 11, 2017
Sister Helen Garvey has died at the age of 82. Garvey was elected to the three-year presidency of the LCWR in 1986. In this role, she addressed St. John Paul II on behalf of American women religious when he visited San Francisco in 1987. On August 17, visitation will take place in the BVM motherhouse chapel at Mount Carmel in Dubuque.
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Racism faced by black nuns in America called ‘dangerous memory’
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 18, 2016
In early American history black women could be accepted into orders of nuns only if they could “pass for white,” and later they faced significant racial prejudice. Despite all that, they became role models for the black community in America and served as spiritual leaders.
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American nun: We feel vindicated at end of Vatican investigation

May 15, 2015

One of the women at the heart of the Vatican investigation into the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the umbrella group for 80 percent of US nuns, says she and her sisters feel vindicated now that the investigation has ended. “The fact that the Vatican ended up affirming the work

Vatican probe ends with an olive branch for American nuns

Church

December 16, 2014

An unprecedented and highly controversial Vatican investigation of every community of Catholic sisters in the United States that began with criticism of nuns as having a “secular mentality” ended Tuesday with a report full of praise, and without any disciplinary measures or new controls. The result likely will be seen

Deal with it: Francis is the pope

Church

December 13, 2014

British writer and veteran Catholic professional Austen Ivereigh has a terrific new book out called The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope. Among other things, he’s masterful in explaining how navigating the ideologically charged period of Argentina’s “Dirty War” prepared the pontiff to try to hold