The following comes from an August 20 story on Catholic World News.

At the conclusion of a four-day annual assembly, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious issued a cautious statement expressing hopes that a Vatican mandate for reform of the group could find “a resolution of this situation that maintains the integrity of LCWR and is healthy for the whole church.”

Conference members conducted their discussions on the Vatican mandate quietly, meeting three times in executive session. The meeting heard a presentation from Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who has been appointed by the Vatican to oversee reform efforts within the group, and held a feedback session in which women religious offered their responses, characterized in the nuns’ statement as “a profound and honest sharing of views.” Archbishop Sartain also meet with the group’s board members, for what the nuns’ conference said was an “extraordinarily rich and deeply reverent conversation.”