American nuns are sending two leaders of their main organization to Rome--on a mission, not a pilgrimage. Sister Pat Farrell, the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and Sister Janet Mock, the group's executive director, want to meet with a cardinal and an archbishop to ask why their group is being disciplined as the result of a harsh "assessment" by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and, more extraordinarily, to object to the Vatican's findings.
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