Here is Why the Vatican Is Investigating U.S. Religious

“I was rooted in the story of Jesus, and it remains at my core, but I’ve also moved beyond Jesus.”

The quotation above is from an unnamed woman religious recounted in a retreat address by Sister Laurie Brink, O.P., available here. Brink goes on to say that those communities of women religious “who embraced the spirit of renewal of the 1970s” differ from their predecessors in that “the Jesus narrative is not the only or the most important narrative for these women. They still hold up and reverence the values of the Gospel, but they also recognize that these same values are not solely the property of Christianity. Buddhism, Native American spirituality, Judaism, Islam and others hold similar tenets for right behavior within the community, right relationship with the earth and right relationship with the divine.” Thus, she says that while communities like the Benedictine Women of Madison “are certainly religious women . . . they are no longer women religious as it is defined by the Roman Catholic Church. They choose as a congregation to step outside the Church in order to step into a greater sense of holiness.”

This is why they are dying and the Orthodox orders are growing.

Mirrors of Justice(where the above quote is from) is looking at this issue. See

“I was rooted in the story of Jesus, and it remains at my core, but I’ve also moved beyond Jesus.”
Vatican Examination of Women Religious
women religious and the vatican
Society for the Study of Cardinal Newman
Women Religious in the United States ... and the Vatican

This should have been done decades ago