Action at the Vatican Embassy- Breaking Story, Gathering of Supporters of LCWR

A group of 150+ people, many clad in red for Pentecost, rallied and processed to the Vatican Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC this beastly hot lunch hour. The organizers delivered a petition to the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, asking that the Mandate given to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious be withdrawn.

To the surprise of the crowd, and in a show of the diplomatic finesse, the Nuncio invited two representatives in for a chat. They came out and reported to the gathered that he had spent part of the morning with the LCWR board meeting in Washington, DC. He said that he would deliver their letter to the Vatican without much expectation that it would change things. Then a group of 20 people was invited in to see and pray in the chapel.

See http://solidaritywithsisters.weebly.com/ for pictures and more details forthcoming.

Mary E. Hunt