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This past week, I have been in Rome for meetings. On Friday and Saturday, we had the plenary sessions of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. They were held at the Antonianum, the Franciscan pontifical university in Rome. The prefect, Cardinal Joao Braz, and Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo, the congregation s secretary, were with us, along with a number of superior generals of religious communities, including my own Capuchin Father General Rob