The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is a canonically approved membership organization which serves as a support system and voice for nuns (Catholic women religious) in the United States.
As of 2013, the group is under investigation by the Holy Office via Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller over heretical and doctrinal issues, a position disputed by some of its dissident leaders. In addition, there is a possibility of either a withdrawal of canonical license by the Pope or schism from the group.
Under the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop James Peter Sartain was officially tasked to oversee the doctrinal reform and its statutes for a limited five-year deadline.
Pope Francis reaffirmed the canonical investigation formerly sanctioned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to reform their charisms and organizational teachings. The organization's members were ordered to review their statutes and reassess their plans and programs.
By contrast, members are not affiliated with the smaller Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious which passed an Apostolic Visitation from Rome in 2010.
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