Orlando, Fla., Aug 24, 2013 / 09:15 am
Sister Carol Zinn, the newly elected head of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, said the Vatican's doctrinal assessment of the conference is "much more about the future" of the Catholic Church and not primarily about the conference itself.
"As women of the Church, we will discern how to move through the turbulent aftermath of the doctrinal assessment," Sr. Zinn, a member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, said during her remarks to the LCWR Leadership Assembly, held Aug. 13-16 at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
"The processes of inclusion and dialogue needed today may demand great suffering on our part as we work to create such processes," she added, according to the website of the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph.
Sr. Anne Myers, president of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, praised Sr. Zinn's new position.