Vatican Closes up the Religious Sisters Visitation, and a Couple of Predictions

Here's the link from EWTN: Vatican receives final report on US women religious

I have two predictions, one positive, one negative, but both as inevitable as the sunrise tomorrow:

The National Catholic Reporter (which we who know better affectionately call the "Distorter") is going to go preemptively ballistic ahead of this report's final release and find a religious sister or two, perhaps even Church officials, to talk about what a violation of their dignity this has all been.

But I predict something else, too: this report is only going to bring forward shining examples of the glorious joy that is religious life for all who live it completely and ardently. I think that--despite the efforts of the naysayers--this apostolic visitation is going to help bring about a great renewal for religious sisters and a boon for vocations. Perhaps I am exceedingly optimistic, having worked with two delightful Carmelites today, but then again, I have felt this way for a while now. I am looking forward to reading the Vatican's observations!