Weigel blasts the LCWR.

My comment to National Review's "The Pope and the Sisters"

George Weigel would have served us better by co-authoring this article with one of the sisters affected, and discussing the procedural due process (or lack thereof) available, and perhaps comparing how the Vatican has handled other straying organizations (like the Legion of Christ).  No doubt there are doctrinal issues, but the real contaminating element is not the sisters' umbrella organization but the inability of the authority structure to integrate women into leadership roles and authority roles in the Church.  It is so petty for George to imply that street-clothed sisters living in apartments has led to their diminished vocations while saying nothing about the decline of male priestly vocations and the complete abandonment of faith in Europe under the male leadership there.  If the Church were to follow its scriptural roots and accept women to be ordained as deacons, there would be an explosion of vocations among women.  It is a dedicated denial of this latent truth that motivates George and his bishop friends to be so disproportionately strident on LCWR.