Ich finde ihn sehr aufschlußreich.
[...]In my work on the renewal of Religious Life over the last eight years I have come to the conclusion that Congregations like ours [the kind represented by LCWR in this country] have, in fact, birthed a new form of Religious Life. We are really no longer "Congregations dedicated to works of the apostolate" - that is, monastic communities whose members "go out" to do institutionalized works basically assigned by the hierarchy as an extension of their agendas, e.g., in Catholic schools and hospitals, etc. We are ministerial Religious. [...]
The big difference is that they [apostolic Religious Congregations] read Perfectae Caritatis and did what it asked: deepened their spirituality (I hope), and did some updating -- shorter habits, a more flexible schedule, dropping customs that were merely weird, etc. We read Perfectae Caritatis through the lenses of Gaudium et Spes and Lumen Gentium and we were called out of the monastic/apostolic mode and into the world that Gaudium et Spes declared the Church was embracing after centuries of world rejection.
Etwas zum Hintergrund, für die, die das nicht wissen: In den USA gibt es zwei Ordensoberenkonferenzen, weil die Romtreuen es irgendwann nicht mehr ausgehalten und sich abgespalten haben. Dies hier sind in dem Artikel die Guten, und dies die geimenen Schwestern, die dem Vatikan die Visitation aufgeschwatzt haben. Fällt an den Bildern was auf?
Das traurige ist aber, daß die Schreiberin in einem Punkt recht hat: 95% der Schwesternhäuser gehören zur ersten Gruppe, und die braucht der Vatikan tatsächlich nicht dichtmachen, das passiert schon ganz von alleine.