Catholic World News - December 16, 2014
Expressing ?profound gratitude? for the ?dedicated and selfless service of women religious,? the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has issued its long-awaited Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America.
?This Congregation asks the members of each institute to evaluate their actual practice of liturgical and common prayer,? the report stated as it called upon religious institutes to engage in further dialogue and self-assessment. ?We ask them to discern what measures need to be taken to further foster the sisters? intimate relationship with Christ and a healthy communal spirituality based on the Church?s sacramental life and sacred Scripture.?
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