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“The supreme authority, that is, the director general (Kentenich) and the superior general, are the ‘parents’, that is, the ‘father of the family’ and the ‘mother of the family’. The sisters are daughters or girls. But, in practice, the ‘mother of the family’ is totally subject to the will of the ‘father of the family’, who for all sisters is equated with God”, warned, in 1949, Monsignor Bernhard Stein, then auxiliary bishop of Trier (Germany), in a communication to colleagues at the German Episcopal Conference.
