Leadership Conference of Women Religious

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious ( LCWR ) is a Roman Catholic organization of women religious in the United States. It was founded in 1956 and canonically recognized by the Holy See. Your seat has the LCWR in Silver Spring, Maryland. In it, today are approximately 1,500 religious superiors member who in the U.S. represent about 80 percent of the 57,000 women religious (as of 2013). This makes it by far the largest representation of female members of the Order in the United States, before the Council of Major Superiors founded in 1992 of Women Religious, which represents approximately 20 percent of female religious nationals of the country with around 180 members.

In 2012, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith headed under the leadership of Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller an investigation of the LCWR, since the organization was maintained for years to liberal inter alia on issues of contraception, abortion, women's ordination and homosexuality, no longer with the official line of the Roman Catholic Church to represent matching views. Archbishop James Peter Sartain of the Diocese of Seattle has been used as an agent to monitor a reform of the LCWR. The positions of the LCWR, however, have received wide support.

On 14 April 2013, the LCWR received the Herbert -Haag Prize.