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Today the report from the Apostolic Visitation was released via a live-stream press conference from the Vatican with the outcomes of the Congregation for Religious’ Apostolic Visitation of U.S. sisters conducted from 2009 to 2012.

DignityUSA joins other Catholic organizations and Catholics across the US in welcoming a mainly positive report on the Vatican's "visitation" of US Sisters, and calls for an end to the LCWR investigation.

Click here to read the Nun Justice Project press release.

Click here to read the final report from the Apostolic Visitation.

Click here to read LCWR's response.

Click here to read the text of all the speeches from the press conference today in Rome.

Click here to listen to Sr. Sharon Holland talk about the report.

Click here to read the experience of women religious during the visitation.

Your passionate advocacy for the sisters through hundreds of prayer services, public demonstrations and media events was instrumental in advancing due process, raising up women's leadership voice and promoting justice in the church.

You helped the Vatican understand how deeply U.S. Catholics value the prophetic witness of women religious and appreciate their commitment to social justice and care for the marginalized.

Your witness is an important milestone in the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Church.

For extensive background on the Nun Justice Project's work addressing the LCWR mandate visit nunjustice.org.

For background on the Apostolic Visitation click here and here

The Nun Justice Project is a grassroots movement supported by the following organizations: American Catholic Council, Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church, Call To Action, Catholics for Choice,CORPUS, DignityUSA, FutureChurch, New Ways Ministry, Quixote Center, RAPPORT (Renewing a Priestly People, Ordination Reconsidered Today), Voice of the Faithful, WATER: Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, Women's Ordination Conference