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    LCWR Update April 2008 page 1

    Inside this issue:

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    April 2008

    Leaders Urged to Participate in

    NRVC Research Study

    LCWR Officers Travel to Rome

    On This Holy MountainLCWR-CMSM Assembly

    Denver, Colorado

    More Than 90 Leaders Attend LCWR Workshop

    All LCWR members and associates will soon be receiv-ing by e-mail the registration brochure for the 2008LCWR-CMSM assembly. Please note that brochures willnot be sent by US mail. The last page of the brochureis the registration form. This page must be printed outand sent by US mail with a check to register for the as-sembly. Hotel registrations should be made online usingthe link in the brochure. The registration brochure willalso be available on the members information sectionof the LCWR website (www.lcwr.org).

    Religious Life Leaders of the AmericasPledge Continued Solidarity

    Top: Hugo Londoo(translator); Maria delSocorro Henao Velasquez,CTSJ; Paul Lininger,OFM Conv; Donna Geer-naert, SC; Tom Picton,CSSR; and Carole Shin-nick, SSND

    (Left) Mary Whited,CPPS; Annette Nel,SP; and Ignacio AntonioMadera Vargas, SDS

    The InterAmerican Committee, represent-ing the women and men religious of theAmericas, held its annual meeting inWashington, DC from March 3 - 7. The

    committee is comprised of the presidents and

    executive directors/general secretaries of theConfederation of Latin American Religious(CLAR), the Canadian Religious Conference(CRC), the Conference of Major Superiors ofMen (CMSM), and LCWR.

    The InterAmerican Committee was begunin 1971 in response to a call from the bish-ops of the Americas. The committee hasmet each year and periodically has plannedInterAmerican Conferences which are largergatherings of religious, the most recent being

    in Itaici, Brazil in 2005.

    At the 2005 gathering the conference identified fiveareas of focus for continued collaboration: the church,communications, religious life, speaking with one voice,and the organization of the InterAmerican. Variousobjectives were set under each area of focus.

    At this years meeting, the committee agreed to con-tinue the relationships and conversation that have taken

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    From th LCWR Pridncy

    by Mary Whited, CPPS LCWR President

    Finding Our Way

    This is an exciting time for mycommunity as we partnerwith a developer to renovateour motherhouse and to

    develop our land into the Village ofSt. Marys. Having explored a varietyof alternatives for our future, historicdesignation of our buildings and seniorhousing tax credits will enable us toremain on our property and open upour space to others. We are well on theway to creating a master plan for the

    use of our land.

    When I said yes to leadership in my community,no one told me that the legal and financial aspects ofplanning for the future would be so complex. Our

    leadership team and many others with whom wenetwork are finding a way to build on the past and

    create something that will increase the value of ourland and provide for our members and ministries intothe future. Eagerly our sisters anticipate changes thatwill stir new life in our buildings and promote a senseof community on the land. Land and buildings arebecoming an unforeseen way of ministering to others.

    We cant go it alone. We are strengthened when wework together. We rely on the connections we havemade with partners and consultants who have our bestinterests at heart. To our meetings and deliberationsthey bring creativity, imagination, knowledge, skills,

    experience, capacity, daring, and the caring enoughto make this project work. Finding the way is nevereasy. Finding the way together is key to bringing aboutdesired results.

    A prime task of leadership is finding the way through.How often I seem to be finding my way! Dealing withdilemmas such as underused space. Juggling moremeetings than I can comfortably handle. Paving theway for what we cannot yet envision. Trusting the

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    rvid th crag fr finng r ay.

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    springtime that is just beginning tobud. In helping my community let goof what is not essential to our mission,I am learning that I cannot rescuepeople from the fears and insecuritiesthat naturally accompany change. Iam aware of how important it is, butalso how difficult it is, to stay withuncertainty until new insights emergeand different perspectives are gained.

    In changing times such as these, finding

    the way is really about walking a sacredpath that does not begin or end anywhere other thanwhere we really are. Asking our sisters to step back tosee the larger picture can promote a sense of solidaritywith so many others in our world who are finding theirway: the 4.4 million Iraqis who have been displacedas a result of the war in Iraq, millions of Palestinianrefugees who have never lived in their own homes oroccupied their own land, thousands who are traffickedacross borders each day, a good portion of the worldspopulation that is ever on the move. Displaced personsfinding their way!

    The Village of St. Marys will continue to develop.Thousands of people will immigrate across borderstoday in an effort to find ways to better their lives.

    We, leaders, will put one foot in front of the othertrusting that the Spirit of God accompanies us in theunfolding of the future of our congregations andthe transformation of our lives as women religious.Building on the past grounds us for the future. Drawingfrom the deepest sense of who we are together, womenreligious who are about the mission of Jesus, providesthe courage for finding our way.

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    place annually on these focus areas. They also agreed to

    explore global ecological issues, particularly the issueof water. To assist with the conversation on water, thecommittee invited LCWR associate director for socialmission Marie Lucey, OSF; CMSM associate directorMichael McNulty, SJ; USCCB executive director-des-ignate of the Department of Justice, Peace and HumanDevelopment John Carr; and USCCB environmentaljustice program coordinator Cecilia Calvo to share someof the efforts being made in each of their organizationsto address climate change.

    In addition to taking up the issues of critical impor-

    tance for religious in the Americas, each meeting of theInterAmercian Committee includes touring signficanthistoric and cultural sites of the host country. This yearthe committee toured the Museum of the AmericanIndian, the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, theCathedral of Mary Our Queen, and the original Balti-more basilica.

    Representing the four conferences this year were:LCWR -- Mary Whited, CPPS, president; Carole Shin-nick, SSND, executive director; CMSM -- Tom Picton,

    CSSR, president; Paul Lininger, OFM Conv, executivedirector; CLAR -- Ignacio Antonio Madera Vargas, SDS,president; Maria del Socorro Henao Velasquez, CTSJ,general secretary; CRC -- Donna Geernaert, SC, presi-dent, and Annette Nel, SP, executive director.

    Religious Life Leaders of the AmericasPledge Continued Solidarity

    USCCB representatives Cecilia Calvo and John Carr ad-dressed the InterAmerican Committee on climate change andwater

    Leaders Urged to Participate in MajorNRVC Research Study on Vocations toReligious Life

    As previously announced, the National Religious

    Vocation Conference (NRVC) recently obtaineda $64,300 grant to conduct a major study on

    contemporary vocation trends to religious life in theUnited States. NRVC has contracted with the Center forApplied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) to conductthis research.

    The first component of this project is to survey all lead-ers of both mens and womens religious institutes inthe United States. This will also include those emergingcommunities that are aspiring for canonical recognition

    as a religious institute. This survey will focus on thecharacteristics of the religious institute, the lifestyle ofits members, the characteristics of its vocation and for-mation programs, including the number of women andmen who entered in the last 15 years, including thosewho left in the same time frame.

    Congregational leaders will be receiving this surveyin April. Given that much of what is heard regard-ing vocations in the United States is anecdotal, NRVChopes that this research will present the needed dataso as to assist religious institutes in their vocation and

    formation programs. The other three componentsinclude surveying newer members, onsite visits to thoseinstitutes that successfully attract and retain candidates,and focus groups of newer religious.

    For the results of this study to be both reliable andvalid, it is important that NRVC has the full participa-tion of all religious institutes. NRVC thanks leadersin advance for assisting the conference in making thisproject a success.

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    More Than 90 Leaders Participate in LCWR Workshop

    Lynn Jarrell, OSU and Simone Campbell, SSS

    Mira Mosle, BVMNancy Schreck, OSF

    Hertha Longo, CSA Lynn Levo, CSJ

    More than 90 leaders participated in this yearsLCWR New Leader Workshop held from March13 - 16 at the Retreat Center at St. Johns in

    Plymouth, Michigan.

    This annual workshop provides invaluable informationon topics of critical importance for religious life leadersin the areas of spiritual leadership, finance, canon andcivil law, leading in times of transition, team-building,and communications. Each day is set in the contextof prayer and ritual and includes integration sessionswhere teams can work together to process the informa-tion received that day.

    The content of the workshop is based on the threedimensions of leadership (symbolic/meaning-making,relational, structural/organizational) that are furtherdeveloped in the LCWR Leading from Within Manual.(Information on ordering the manual is on page 5.)

    Nancy Schreck, OSF served as a presenter and facilita-tor for the workshop while Mira Mosle, BVM; HerthaLongo, CSA; Lynn Levo, CSJ; Lynn Jarrell, OSU; andSimone Campbell, SSS served as faculty. Carole Shinn-ick, SSND; Pat Cormack, SCSC; and Annmarie Sanders,IHM staffed the workshop.

    The workshop is highly recommended not only forthose who are new to leadership, but also for thosereturning to leadership. The event will be offered againat the same location from March 19 -22, 2009.

    Participants in the LCWR NewLeader Workshop had manyopportunities to share their

    insights in a spirit ofmutual learning.

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    LCWR Represented at Iraq War Rally

    On the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, MarieLucey, OSF represented LCWR at a rally held acrossfrom the White House in Lafayette Park. Marie said, inpart, This week, as we contemplate the suffering, death

    and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we pray with people ofother faiths for all men, women and children who arepaying the price of this war, and we pray for the electedleaders of our country that they may have the courageto recognize the consequences of their actions and bringthe war in Iraq to an end. Enough with the slaughters.Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred(and war) in Iraq! (Quote from Pope Benedict XVI)

    The full text of her statement is available at: www.lcwr.org/lcwrsocialjustice/iraq.doc

    LCWR offers a leadership mentoring program thatcan be pursued from home. The conference devel-oped Leading from Within: A Mentoring Leadership

    Manual that is based on the three dimensions of leader-ship (symbolic/meaning-making, relational, structural/organizational). Many leaders have already used thismanual and have found it extremely helpful in theirministry.

    The program is especially helpful to those relatively new to leader-ship but is a valuable reflection tool for any leader. involves a period of reflection, study and explora-tion on the part of the leader. The process usually takesabout one year. involves partnering with an experienced leader orformer leader who serves as a mentor, or forming a peermentoring group. is flexible. Participants can do as many or as few ofthe units as works well for them. offers a variety of experiences that will accomodatedifferent styles of adult learning.

    The manual is in a three-ring binder for easy removaland addition of pages, as users find material to expandwhat is in the book. Information on ordering can befound on the LCWR website at: www.lcwr.org/lcwrpro-gramsresources/mentoringleadership.htm.

    Leading from Within ManualA Leadership Program Designed

    for Use at Home

    LCWR Officers to Visit Dicastries in Rome

    From March 30 -- April 4, the LCWR presidency -- MaryWhited, CPPS; J Lora Dambroski, OSF; and Mary Dacey,SSJ -- and executive director -- Carole Shinnick, SSNDwill represent the conference at meetings in severalVatican offices. More details about the meetings will bein the May issue of Update.

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    NCCHCM Decides for the Future

    The main agenda item during the March 4 meet-ing of the National Catholic Coalition on CatholicHealth Care Ministry was a discussion about the

    future of the coalition: whether to continue as is, to

    restructure, or to sunset. Members considered whetheror not the coalition had fulfilled its purpose, whetheror not it is a duplication of the advisory council to theUSCCB Task Force on Health Care, or whether or notits purposes can be addressed by the Catholic HealthAssociation (CHA).

    Bishops who serve on the coalition, who are mem-bers of the task force, argued for the continuation ofNCCHCM because it serves a different role from theadvisory council which is consulted on an ad hoc basis.Also, the USCCB restructuring is not yet completed.The bishops value the dialogic process on significanthealth care issues that occurs between themselves andpractitioners. Members of the coalition include repre-sentatives from the USCCB, LCWR, CMSWR, CHA, andCatholic Charities.

    Agreement was reached to continue the coalition for thenext three years, with another evaluation at that time.The purpose will be to promote collaboration in thepromotion of the churchs overall mission in healthcareas well as to build trust between bishops and practitio-

    ners. The agenda will be developed in light of the 1988vision, updated to address topics of special currentinterest, and a plan of communication both internal tocoalition members and external to the USCCB will bedeveloped.

    Members are asked to commit to NCCHCM for threeyears. LCWR members currently serving are Kit Gray,CSJ; Jacquelyn Motzel, FSM; Marianna Bauder, SCL;Marlene Wiesenbeck, FSPA; Celeste Trahan, CCVI, andMarie Lucey, OSF (staff).

    Justice for Immigrants CampaignWelcomes New Director and BattlesSAVE Act

    Members of the Justice for Immigrants (JFI)

    campaign who participated in the March 12meeting welcomed Tony Cube, recently hired as

    new JFI National Campaign Manager, who will relocatefrom Seattle, Washington. Tony arrives in the middle ofa battle protesting the SAVE (Save American throughVerification and Employment) Act which is an enforce-ment-only proposal that would increase monies forborder protection and detention, and would mandate anationwide employer verification system

    On February 25 a letter was sent to all Representatives

    expressing opposition to HR 4088, the SAVE Act, aletter signed by the USCCB, CHA, Catholic Charities,CMSM, LCWR, and others. On March 11, Representa-tive Thelma Drake (R-NC) filed a discharge petitionin the House of Representatives to bypass the regularcommittee process for bringing a bill to a vote. The peti-tion needs 218 signatures. As of March 14, the dischargepetition had 169 signatures, including eight Democrats.

    JFI engaged in a deep drill of contacting Catholicco-sponsors of HR 4088, urging them not to support thedischarge petition. A number of justice and peace coor-

    dinators for LCWR congregations in key congressionaldistricts were contacted and agreed to make calls.

    In addition, the Congressional Hispanic caucus willpropose a five-year temporary visa for undocumentedpersons in the country. JFI supports legal status forthe undocumented, provided that Congress returns toconsideration of comprehensive immigration reform,including a path to citizenship.

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    Plans for a Convention for theCommon Good Move Forward

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    atholics in Alliance for the Common Good andNETWORK, conveners of the Convention for the

    Common Good, held a strategizing meeting fromFebruary 29 March 2.With the convention steeringcommittee and endorsers, they developed a plan toengage people across the country in a process to iden-tify key issues to be incorporated into a Platform for theCommon Good to be ratified at the convention. LCWRis an endorser of the convention, to be held July 11-13 inPhiladelphia, but declined serving on the steering com-mittee due to limited resources of money and staff.

    During the meeting, LCWR representative, Marie Lucey,OSF and others expressed concerns about the short time

    line for publicizing and promoting the convention, butcommitted to promoting it among their members andagreed to contact other Catholic organizations. LCWRregion chairs, as well as justice and peace coordinators,received information about the convention itself anda dialogue process for engaging others in a conversa-tion to identify four key issues for the 2008 elections tobe submitted to NETWORK. It is hoped that regions,and/or religious congregations, and/or other groupingswould consider sending a delegate, or delegates to theconvention to participate in the ratification process. For

    further information see www.networklobby.org.-- Im-portant Notices -- Convention.

    Faithful Security EncouragesParticipation in ComplexTransformation Hearings

    LCWR is a member of Faithful Security: The Nation-al Religious Partnership on the Nuclear WeaponsDanger, which met in Washington, DC on March

    7. Attention was given to opposing the Bush adminis-trations plan to rebuild the nations nuclear weaponsproduction capabilities. The plan includes construct-ing a bomb plant that would mass-produce nuclearweapons for the first time in two decades. This facility,the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacementplant (CMRR) would be constructed at the Los AlamosNational Laboratory in New Mexico, and would havethe annual capacity to build 80 plutonium pits, or trig-

    gers, for new nuclear warheads.

    The administration, via the Department of Energy, isseeking $100 million for the new plant in the FY 2009budget, with the total cost estimated to be greater than$2 billion. In 2006, a number of LCWR congregationssubmitted statements to the DOE opposing plan Com-plex 2030, which eventually received zero dollars infunding from Congress. The administration is backwith a scaled-down version and a new name, Com-plex Transformation. Information about submittingstatements to the DOE were sent to LCWR region chairsand justice and peace contacts for dissemination (www.fcnl.org/nuclear). Statements must be sent by April 10.LCWR was also represented by Marie Lucey, OSF at thelast public hearing on March 25 in Washington, DC. Thetext of Maries statement at the hearing can be found at:www.lcwr.org/lcwrsocialjustice/nucweap.doc

    LCWR Represented at Public WitnessAgainst Torture

    On March 10, two days after President Bushvetoed the Intelligence Authorization bill passedby both houses of Congress, a bill that would put

    an end to US sponsored torture, a public witness event

    was held in Washington, DC sponsored by NRCAT(National Religious Coalition Against Torture), PaxChristi USA, TASSC, Rabbis for Human Rights, andother anti-torture groups. Representative Jim Moran,and five other speakers deplored the Presidents vetoand condemned use of torture tactics on moral, legal,and practical grounds.

    LCWR associate director Marie Lucey, OSF, spoke toopposition to torture from the perspective of the taproot

    principle of Catholic social tradition, God-given humandignity, and proposed that a primary reason why oneperson tortures another is deep-seated fear. Marie quot-ed Pope John Paul II: Christs disciple refuses everyrecourse to such methods, which nothing could justifyand in which (human dignity) is as much debased in

    the torturer as in the torturers victim.

    The full text of Maries statement can be found at:www.lcwr.org/lcwrsocialjustice/torture.doc

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    A Borrowed Treat for EasterFrom th LCWR Exuv Drer

    Carole Shinnick, SSND

    Although the calendar read EasterSunday on March 23, I could

    hardly believe it. The last timeEaster was so early was 1913. Butdont worry. Easter will not fall on thesame date until and this is not a typo 2160. Im sure that some of you arereading this in places where the snow isall too evident and theres not a bunny insight. Have hope. But dont put your bootsaway yet.

    Not only did Easter come early, but thedeadline for this newsletter snuck upon me as well. I often have a pretty good idea what I

    want to write about but not this month. To be honestright now I have one foot on the plane to Rome and theother on a banana peel. So rather than write somethingjust for the sake of filling up this page, I hope you dontmind if I offer you a little calorie-free Easter candy.

    This is a delightful (and hopefully authentic) pieceI came across years ago. Perhaps you have seen it,too. It is a wise and witty prayer with some timelessreminders. I hope you enjoy it. Here is the Prayer of a17th Century Nun.

    Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself, that I am

    growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from thefatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subjectand on every occasion.

    Release me from craving to straighten outeverybodys affairs. Make me thoughtful but

    not moody; helpful but not bossy. With myvast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to useit all, but Thou knowest Lord that I want a

    few friends at the end.

    Keep my mind free from the recital of endlessdetails; give me wings to get to the point.Seal my lips on my aches and pains. Theyare increasing, and love of rehearsing them is

    becoming sweeter as the years go by. I darenot ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales ofothers pains, but help me to endure themwith patience.

    I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growinghumility and a lessening cocksureness when my memoryseems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the

    glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

    Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a saint - someof them are so hard to live with - but a sour old person is oneof the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see

    good things in unexpected places, and talents in unexpectedpeople. And, give me, O Lord, the grace to tell them so.

    Amen.

    See you again in the May issue of Update!

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    Upcoming LCWR Dates

    LCWR-CMSM Joint AssemblyDenver, Colorado

    August 1 4, 2008

    LCWR Leading from Within RetreatFranciscan Center

    Tampa, FloridaJanuary 12 16, 2009

    LCWR New Leader WorkshopThe Retreat Center at St. Johns

    Plymouth, MichiganMarch 19 22, 2009

    LCWR AssemblyNew Orleans, LouisianaAugust 11 15, 2009

    LCWR Leading from Within RetreatRedemptorist Renewal Center

    Tucson, ArizonaJanuary 17 22, 2010

    Update is an official publication of the LeadershipConference of Women Religious published monthly anddistributed to members nationally.

    Editor: Annmarie Sanders, IHM

    8808 Cameron Street Silver Spring, MD 20910Phone: 301-588-4955 Fax: [email protected] www.lcwr.org

    Update

    Orientation to Formation forMinisters and Leaders

    Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008Passionist Spiritual Center

    Riverdale (Bronx), NYSponsored by theReligious Formation Conference

    This short program:is an excellent preparation for congregational lead-ers who have responsibility in the area of formationand incorporation.can provide vocation personnel for religious con-gregations with an overview of the developmentalprocess into which they are inviting prospectivecandidates and useful criteria for the suitability ofprospective candidateswelcomes new initial formation directors and thosewho experience themselves as new in these roles.Seasoned directors may find the program a usefulrefresher as they carry out their ministry.is an opportunity to share ideas and gain encour-agement from others who are involved in thisministry. An emphasis will be placed on the practi-cal concerns of the participants.encourages discussion and sharing on such top-ics as a philosophy of formation; the focus of each

    particular stage of formation; skills for mentoringpersons in initial formation; relationships - directorand person in formation, director and leadership;spiritual direction; therapy; role of formation direc-tor; dynamics of formation community, leadershipdemands, etc.

    Presenters:Maryann Seton Lopiccolo, SC

    Donald Bisson, FMS

    For more information contact RFC at 301-588-4938 orvisitwww.relforcon.org/4_programs/Orientation.htm

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    Annual April Half-Price Publication Sale

    Each April the center offers its publications at half price-- a little gift for leaders. www.religious-life.org/pubs/index.html

    Research Link-of-the-Month

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    This site is a wonderful resource for mission plan-

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