Today, Leo XIV sent a prerecorded video message to the 70th-anniversary
assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in
Orlando.
LCWR is the largest association of leaders of Catholic
women religious in the United States. Its members are generally the
superiors of congregations of sisters.
The video was shown to an overwhelmingly elderly gathering, with scarcely a religious habit or young face in sight.
Religious to Become “Experts in Synodality”
Leo
XIV said that all Christians are called to be “formed in a synodal
Church”. He continued: “In a special way, those in religious life are
called to become experts in synodality due to the opportunities afforded
by community life to practice it.”
Then, he praised the
assembly's planned “synodal method of listening, discussion and
discernment,” expressing the hope that through such “fraternal and
receptive dialogue” the sisters would be able to “discern what the Holy
Spirit is saying” about “the present and future of consecrated life.”
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