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Article: Lay women make headway in clerical Rome.(The Word From Rome)(actress Nicoletta Gaida and her founding of the Centro Dionysia, Rome, Italy)(Biography)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 7, 2003
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Even in this very clerical town, lay people with vision can make a difference. American laywoman Donna Orsuto, who has built the Lay Centre and the Vincent Pallotti Institute into indispensable resources for laity in Rome, offers one example.
Nicoletta Gaida presents another.
Gaida, born in Tacoma, Wash., and fluent in four languages (including Italian), was once a rising theater star. At age 23, she won Italy's best actress award for her performance in a musical called Cinecitta. The more she climbed the ladder, however, the more she realized that her spiritual understanding of the craft was not always shared by her audiences.
Or as Gaida put ...