The Brazilian Conference of Religious (CRB) has set up the Observatory of Religious (OCR), composed of men and women religious from various Congregations and some lay people from the Justice and Peace Commission. The Daughters of St Paul could not be absent from this group. They are represented by Sr Maria Helena Corazza and Sr Patrícia Silva who, as Communications Councillor in the Brazilian Religious Conference, was already a member of the group.
The aim of the Observatory is to offer the National Conference of Bishops a permanent, critical, proactive and concrete analysis of the various forms and means of communication of the Church in Brazil, as well as analysing the interaction of religious communication with society and politics.