From Seattle-
Over the years, Patricia Patterson thought about joining protest marches in support of women's rights or against war. But the cause that finally got her to take to the streets was nuns.
"It baffles me that a group of women who are among the ... most compassionate are being, frankly, picked on by the Vatican," Patterson said Sunday. She joined a throng of nearly 500 people who marched in support of the nuns' group recently rebuked by the Catholic Church for promoting "radical feminist themes" at odds with official doctrine.
Patterson carried a picture of her aunt, a nun who had a major influence on her life. Other marchers carried flowers and sang hymns as they walked from Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill to St. James Cathedral, seat of the Archdiocese of Seattle.
But Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain wasn't home. He was in St. Louis for meetings with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group that includes about 80 percent of women's religious orders in the United States.
The Vatican put Sartain in charge of revamping the Leadership Conference to bring its practices more in line with Catholic orthodoxy.
After a four-day conference that concluded Friday, the nuns agreed to talk with Sartain but said they would not "compromise the integrity" of their mission.
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