Vatican religious prefect says ‘new attitude’ needed with nuns

A “new attitude” of cooperation and equality must govern relations between the Vatican and Catholic sisters around the world, the National Catholic Reporter said, quoting a key Vatican cardinal.

That attitude, Cardinal João Braz de Aviz said in May, must be grounded in the understanding that both the church hierarchy and the sisters “are two dimensions essential in the church.”

“Neither is greater than the other,” Braz de Aviz said. “Both the prophetic and the governing dimensions form the church,” the report quoted Aviz.

Aviz, the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious, made his comments in May in Rome during a talk at the triennial meeting of the International Union of Superiors General.

While the cardinal’s remarks to the sisters, first reported by NCR, garnered wide attention at the time, the full text of Braz de Aviz’s talk was never made public.

NCR will publish the cardinal’s full 80-minute talk in three parts later this week.

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