CMSWR

The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) is a canonically approved organization founded in 1992, to promote religious life in the United States. Its statutes were definitively approved by the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on October 26, 1995.

Composed of major superiors of women religious with communities in the United States, the group is dedicated to Mary, Mother of the Church and Patroness of the Americas. Members of the Council wish to serve the Church and to foster the progress and welfare of religious life in the United States.

The Council seeks:

• to establish collaboration among major superiors who desire it,
• to serve as a channel of communication among major superiors,
• to provide a forum for participation, dialogue, and education on the patrimony of the Church’s teaching on religious life,
• to promote unity among major superiors, thus testifying to their union with the Magisterium and their love for Christ’s Vicar on earth, and,
• to coordinate active cooperation with the USCCB.