Catholic nun organizes national pre-inauguration event to foster peace
By Rhina Guidos
Catholic News Service
1.4.2017 4:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Sister Rita Petruziello said she could feel the "contention and nastiness" in the air during the presidential election campaign of the last year. Instead of getting better as the process went along, it kept getting worse.
"It didn't matter who won," she told Catholic News Service Jan. 3. "There would be a lot of unrest, division and hatred."
But she couldn't just sit without doing anything about it and decided to find a way to counter all those bad feelings she was seeing and hearing.
Sister Petruziello, a member of the Sisters of the Congregation St. Joseph in Cleveland, has since put together Circle the City with Love, an event that seeks to gather people across cities in the United States on Jan. 15 at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, have them join hands in their respective cities and, in silence, meditate together as a means to foster peace.
http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2017/catholic-nun-organizes-national-pre-inauguration-event-to-foster-peace.cfm
http://www.circlecitywithlove.com/
