Dr Gemma Simmonds, member of the Congregartion of Jesus, and British writer of religous affairs, Paul Vallely, were on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour today speaking about the Vatican Report on religious sisters in the United States.
They both agreed that the report was as close it gets to an apology from the Holy See.
Dr Simmonds made reference to the trend in 'conservative' vocations. And it was agreed that vocations to religious life during the last two papacies would be inevitably 'conservative' as both popes were 'conservative'.
It was also pointed out that it takes 10 to 15 years to see the benefit of vocations.
Dr Simmonds said that the older US sisters were more liberal as they had a life experience of working with people.
She also commented on the poor remuneration made to women religious and how inadequate were their pension funds.
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