Assembly calls women religious to be bold in determining direction

Published: 2007-08-07

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) -- Women religious gathered at the Aug. 1-4 assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious were called to be bold in analyzing and determining the direction of religious life. Dominican Sister Laurie Brink in her keynote address reminded her audience that when religious life first emerged and again after the Second Vatican Council it was directed to the edges of society, "which were in desperate need of our compassionate attention. So it is to the margins that religious life must again move, in order to be true to its original and renewed impetus toward holiness." Also during the assembly in Kansas City, the 750 leaders of U.S. religious communities in attendance approved a resolution calling for members to promote legislation to preserve and renew wetlands and coastal regions and strengthen Louisiana's levees. A second resolution they approved promotes debt cancellation in developing countries, especially through participation in a 40-day "rolling fast" in September and October promoted by the Jubilee USA Network. The theme of the assembly was "The Next Frontier: Religious Life on the Edge of Tomorrow."

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