Livestreaming Links for the 2024 Assembly Presentations  

Many of the main LCWR assembly events will be livestreamed. These events will also be recorded and posted on the LCWR website to be viewed at any time after the assembly.

All times listed here are EASTERN TIME.

Wednesday, August 14
9:25 - 10:10 AM
Presidential Address by Maureen Geary, OP
https://youtube.com/live/wiQ3hM4-9QY?feature=share

 2:05 - 2:50 PM
Keynote: Bryan N. Massingale
https://youtube.com/live/tEGQQK6U4zk?feature=share

Thursday, August 15
9:20 - 10:05 AM
Keynote: Maricarmen Bracamontes, OSB
https://youtube.com/live/_3WINsEYMtA?feature=share

11:20 - 11:50 AM
Reflectors:
Who Do We Need You to Be for the World?
https://youtube.com/live/8aPfMAEu2DE?feature=share

2:30 - 3:45 PM
Discerning the Emerging Future: What’s Emerging?
https://youtube.com/live/g6T3wYHPYCs?feature=share

Friday, August 16
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Who Then Shall We Be?
A Contemplative Prayer for the World
https://youtube.com/live/P0n_Lv_vv7A?feature=share

8:00 PM (approximation)
Outstanding Leadership Award Presentation to Nancy Schreck, OSF
https://youtube.com/live/tilP36D1N80?feature=share

 

Contact: Sister Annmarie Sanders, IHM – Director of Communications
Cell: 301-672-3043

Table at LCWR Assembly: #16 (front of ballroom)

Description of the assembly, speaker bios, award recipient bio, schedule and more

See file below for information on "Who Then Shall We Be? A Contemplative Prayer for the World" (August 16 at 2:00 PM)

Information about LCWR 

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is a canonically approved membership organization which exists as a support system and corporate voice for leaders of institutes of women religious (Catholic sisters) in the United States. 

Members

Members of LCWR are Catholic women religious who are leaders of their orders in the United States. The conference has more than 1260 members, who represent about 80 percent of the approximately 35,680 women religious in the United States.  (35,680 statistic is from CARA for 2023)

History

At the request of the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious, leaders of pontifical orders of women religious in the United States founded the conference in 1956 and named it the Conference of Major Superiors of Women. The name was changed in 1971 to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Purpose

The scope of the conference’s concerns is broad and includes: 

  • creating and offering resource materials on religious leadership skills
  • studying significant trends and issues within the church, society, and religious life
  • collaborating in Catholic church and societal efforts that influence systemic change
  • utilizing our corporate voice in solidarity with people who experience any form of violence or oppression 

LCWR serves as a resource to its members, as well as to members of the public seeking information on leadership for religious life.

Mission

The purpose of the conference shall be to promote a developing understanding and living of religious life by:

  • assisting its members personally and communally to carry out more collaboratively their service of leadership in order to accomplish further the mission of Christ in today’s world.
  • fostering dialogue and collaboration among religious congregations within the church and in the larger society.
  • developing models for initiating and strengthening relationships with groups concerned with the needs of society, thereby maximizing the potential of the conference for effecting change.
Contacts

Elected Officers: 
Sister Maureen Geary, OP -- President
Sister Kathy Brazda, CSJ -- President-Elect
Sister Rebecca Ann Gemma, OP -- Past President

Executive Director: Sister Carol Zinn, SSJ