Unconventional agenda for national meeting of Leadership Conference of Women Religious next week in Garden Grove

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which defied US bishops on passage of a national healthcare law and is currently under doctrinal review by the Vatican, will hold its annual meeting in Garden Grove next week with a peculiar agenda.

“When more than 600 sisters gather in Southern California Aug. 9-12 for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, they will set aside discussions on strategic planning and talks about mergers and consolidations,” according to the National Catholic Reporter. “There won't be workshops on recruiting new members or on financing retirement. Gone will be the breakout sessions that often follow keynote addresses at their national meetings.”

“Instead,” says the Reporter, “these leaders of the 334 congregations in the Leadership Conference will sit together in silence, discovering what God is calling forth for religious life today. They will have no expectation of a particular insight or result. Rather, they will spend time in collective contemplation to explore where religious life in the United States may be moving.”

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“Instead,” says the Reporter, “these leaders of the 334 congregations in the Leadership Conference will sit together in silence, discovering what God is calling forth for religious life today. They will have no expectation of a particular insight or result. Rather, they will spend time in collective contemplation to explore where religious life in the United States may be moving.”

In some cultures this is known as a siesta.

Better that this group does nothing, than anything else they would be likely to do.