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Three Austrian Nuns Travel to Rome to See Pope Leo XIV Amid Ongoing Dispute With Local Provost
Three octogenarian Austrian nuns — Sisters Rita, Bernadette and Regina — traveled to Rome for the first time to attend a general audience with Pope Leo XIV, secretly boarding a plane amid an ongoing dispute with their local provost. The sisters won a Vatican ruling allowing them to remain at Schloss Goldenstein convent near Salzburg after escaping a care home last year. Provost Markus Grasl, their superior, accused them of breaking their vow of obedience and argued the convent is unsuitable for them. The nuns became social media influencers with nearly 300,000 Instagram followers before an Austrian court ordered the account to stop posting.
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