Box OSBCHI-A-114-2

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This series contains proposals, agendas, directories, reports, and correspondence relating to the Leadership Conferences of Women Religious during Sr. Mary Ann O'Ryan's tenure as prioress.

Scope and Contents This series contains documents pertaining to the Papal Commission on Religious Life (known as the Quinn Commission), a three-year-long study of religious life in the U.S. helmed by Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco, California. Concerned with the decline of young people entering the Church, and how that trend affects the country's religious community and institutions, Pope John Paul II directed Archbishop John Quinn, along with Archbishop Thomas Kelly of Louisville, Kentucky, and Bishop...

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Contains community questionaires polling sisters' personal lives, spiritual knowledge, and opinions on the ministry, along with task force directories, correspondence, and schedules. Most documents come from the Stewardship Task Force, who oversee several community funds and track the value of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's properties.

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Contains responses to six questions the Archdiocese of Chicago asked women religious about their experience in society and the Church. These questions were asked after the National Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed interest in writing a pastoral letter on women religious, with input from women in each diocese.