Article: Vatican pressures nuns: a chronology.(correspondence with Sr. Christine Vladimiroff, prioress, Benedictine Sisters, Erie, Pennsylvania)(Brief Article)

The following is a chronology of Vatican efforts to intervene in a Women's Ordination Worldwide conference in Dublin:

A March 20 letter from the Congregation for the Institutes of the Consecrated Life directed Sr. Christine Vladimiroff, prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, to issue a formal precept of obedience forbidding Chittister to either "attend or participate" in the Women's Ordination Worldwide conference June 29-July 2 in Dublin. The letter threatens unspecified "just penalties."

Vladimiroff responded to Archbishop Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, secretary of the congregation, April 16 requesting a meeting in Rome the week of May 28-June 1. On ...

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