{"id":18651,"date":"2013-03-22T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=18651"},"modified":"2013-05-15T22:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T04:26:38","slug":"guessing-how-pope-francis-might-treat-the-u-s-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/guessing-how-pope-francis-might-treat-the-u-s-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Guessing How Pope Francis Might Treat the U.S. Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s guess how Pope Francis will handle one problem he inherits &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/31\/vatican-declares-year-of-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\"> severe Vatican crackdown<\/a> on the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LCWR\" target=\"_blank\">LCWR<\/a>) under Pope Benedict XVI that turned out to be a PR disaster for the hierarchy. The general public poured out <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/05\/why-we-are-all-nuns-catholic-pride-universal-call-to-holiness\/\" target=\"_blank\">much support<\/a> for the sisters, and the Vatican came in for a lot of criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Some look hopefully to\u00a0Pope Francis&#8217;\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/21\/catholic-news-service-doubts-and-regrets-among-some-in-the-vatican-about-pope-francis-abrupt-change-in-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">abrupt change in style<\/a>&#8221; as a sign he&#8217;ll take another course. Others recall that as a superior general of the Jesuits forty years ago, he took a quite traditional view of religious discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the Vatican-LCWR problem, Cardinal Dolan gave hope that Francis might bring a change of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re on this journey together. We can speak openly to one another. We both have things to learn. We both have changes we need to make and let&#8217;s serve one another best by being trusting and charitable yet honest to one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Cardinal George, on the other hand,\u00a0said he didn&#8217;t expect any major shift in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Read the AP story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jesuit-pope-offers-hope-targeted-us-nuns-180446586.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most we can hope for is that the Italian method is followed where it quietly slips to the background and life goes on,&#8221; Sister Simone Campbell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[827,938,1239,1967,2212,3010,3021,2313],"class_list":["post-18651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-life","tag-associated-press","tag-cardinal-francis-george","tag-timothy-dolan","tag-lcwr","tag-papal-transition","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-pope-francis","tag-sr-simone-campbell-sss"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guessing How Pope Francis Might Treat the U.S. Sisters - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/guessing-how-pope-francis-might-treat-the-u-s-sisters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guessing How Pope Francis Might Treat the U.S. Sisters - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;The most we can hope for is that the Italian method is followed where it quietly slips to the background and life goes on,&quot; 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