Superiors offer support to US sisters during apostolic visitation

28-05-2009

ROME (CNS) -- An international group of superiors of religious orders of women has expressed its support and appreciation for sisters in the United States as they undergo a Vatican-ordered evaluation.

The board of directors of the International Union of Superiors General, which includes about 2,000 superiors of women's orders, issued their statement of support after a meeting in Rome in late May.

The Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life announced in late January that it had organized an apostolic visitation to examine the life of women's religious communities in the United States.

The May statement of the International Union of Superiors General, whose members include superiors with sisters working in the United States, said, "We affirm unequivocally our support for our sisters in the United States."

The way religious sisters in the United States responded to the mandates of the Second Vatican Council "has been a great gift not only to the pluralistic society in which they live, but also to the universal church," the superiors said.

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