The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary also released their own formal statement, as the accusations from von Teuffenbach concerned their community in particular. The sisters emphatically rejected the accusations and said that "successive generations of our community have experienced the founder as an authentic and credible personality". Like the statement from Schoenstatt's general praesidium, the sisters were already aware of the allegations made against Kentenich and emphasized that when he was reinstated as the founder and returned to Schoenstatt from the US in 1965 all accusations had already been refuted by the church.