UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Jamie L Manson on Jun. 11, 2012 Grace on the Margins
Those wondering what the laity’s response to the LCWR crisis might mean for the future of the church justice movement needed only look at the front steps of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the very warm evening of May 29.
More than 150 people gathered to hold a vigil in honor of women religious. The vigil was part of a movement spearheaded by Nun Justice, which called for peaceful protests at cathedrals throughout the country on three consecutive Tuesdays in the month of May.
Other vigils were equally successful, but the turnout at St. Patrick’s was remarkable for a region that only successfully created a Call to Action chapter in 2011. Although New York is regarded as one of the most forward-looking cities in the United States, its brand of Catholicism has remained remarkably traditional.
Witness, for example, that in Manhattan, tens of thousands still stream through the cathedral on big feast days like Ash Wednesday, and the archbishop of New York is typically something of a local celebrity.
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