The article written by Chris Herlinger and Dan Stockman for Global Sisters Report

Prominent Catholic sisters, some affiliated with U.S.-based organizations subject to Vatican investigations during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, are mourning Benedict's death and praising his life of scholarship, spirituality and service.

"We thank the Lord for the wisdom and humility with which he accompanied the People of God and for the witness of love with which he sustained the path of the church by giving his life during the years of his pontificate," Sr. Nadia Coppa, an Adorer of the Blood of Christ and president of the International Union of Superiors General, said in a statement Dec. 31, the day of the late pope's death.

In joining "the choral prayer of the church for our dear Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI," Coppa said on behalf of Rome-based UISG, "we raise to God our praise for the dedication and care he reserved for religious life and for the prophetic thrust of his magisterium that will remain in the memory of us all."

"May he now sing with all the saints the glories to the Paschal Lamb who created and redeemed him and by whom he allowed himself to be transfigured."