In May, the leadership of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) made a statement about the mandate that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had concluded the previous month. The statement praised Archbishop J. Peter Sartain for his role in bringing to a conclusion a “process … made more difficult because of the ambiguity over the origin of the concerns raised in the doctrinal assessment report that seemed not to have basis in the reality of LCWR’s work,” according to the Global Sisters Report.