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Posted by David Gibson
The Holy Spirit? Smart PR? Or karmic blowback from the Vatican’s curial disasters?
Sister Maureen Fielder reports that when a group of protestors supporting the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which has come under the Vatican thumb, showed up at the Vatican Embassy in Washington on Tuesday, the papal nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, welcomed some of them into the embassy.
Vigano invited two people to sit down and chat and he received their petition asking that the sanctions against LCWR be withdrawn:
In the course of the conversation, he [Vigano] made it known he had been at the beginning of the LCWR board meeting (which started Tuesday and ends Friday). Later, he invited about 20 people into the embassy to see the chapel and offer prayers.
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