'Friendly letter' from Vatican asks another US congregation for clarification

by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins

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Global Sisters Report has identified another of the 15 communities of U.S. Catholic sisters being asked to provide the Vatican with further clarification in the aftermath of a controversial investigation: The apostolic visitation was announced in 2009, and a final report of the six-year process was released in December 2014.

Sr. Teri Hadro, president of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, said her community received a letter from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in early April asking the sisters for written response to the office's continued concern over the order's "public dissent of Church teaching."

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