U.S. sisters' apostolic visitation report to be released Dec. 16

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The Vatican will be releasing the results of one of its controversial and contentious investigations of U.S. women religious at a press briefing in December, a priest who assists the Vatican's press office has said.

Basilian Fr. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian who frequently helps the Vatican with English and French language press, said the Vatican will release a report on the investigation, known as an apostolic visitation, Dec. 16.

The visitation, one of two separate investigations of U.S. women religious launched by different Vatican offices in recent years, sparked protest from both the women and lay people throughout the country who said it was based on unfair and unfounded judgments about the women's lives.

Rosica, who is also the CEO of the Canadian Catholic media network Salt and Light, confirmed the December release of the report in an interview Wednesday with the Detroit Free Press after giving a talk at a Detroit-area Catholic school.

The report "will hopefully be a very positive message for women religious in the United States," Rosica told the Detroit paper.

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