[Catholic Caucus] Dominican Nuns in Tuscany vs. the Vatican, with Help from the Locals Late in June, we received a warning from a village on the edge of Tuscany that yet another religious house with the wrong sort of mindset was facing the now dreaded prospect of a Vatican visitator. The contemplative Dominican monastery of Marradi, the spiritual heart of the little mountain town for over four centuries, is threatened with forced closure by the Vatican, ostensibly because their numbers recently dropped below the Vaticans prescribed minimum for alive and vital autonomy.Local people, however, believe that this is a pretext,...