She is a convinced no-vax nun, he, her brother, a retired doctor who believes in anti-Covid serum to the point of being one of the voluntary vaccinators of the health system.
However, theirs did not remain a family dispute, because the doctor, knowing that the other 5 nuns of the monastery of Montegalda (Vicenza) are also opposed to the injection, reported the matter to the Bishop of the Diocese of Padua, where Montegalda returns. , straddling the Berici and Euganei hills.
Fed up with his sister's hesitations, the doctor, 72, wrote - reports 'Il Gazzettino' - an email to the Diocese: "Despite the appeal to the vaccine of the Pope, the bishops and President Mattarella ... you have a den of No Vax who pushes in this direction even with photos and appeals to the limit of ridicule. It is the monastery in Montegalda with the mother superior who lives off her cell phone and daily and silly No Vax propaganda. The crowning glory is that she is my sister ".
The Diocese responded to the appeal today with a note from the director of the Social Communications Office, Don Daniele Longato. "The bishop himself (and other representatives of the Diocese) - he underlines - has expressed himself on several occasions for this responsible choice towards oneself and others and the Diocese has periodically informed parish priests and religious realities of the need to comply with the indications of the government on rules and behaviors to be adopted, distances, use of masks ". As for the vaccine, the call of the Church "can be exclusively the personal responsibility of each one".
The nun no-vax, 77, seems to be about to review her choice. "Yes, it's true, I am not vaccinated, but in September I think I will. I wanted to wait for the summer because in the summer there is no great danger. But if this disease starts again and causes so many victims ... then I'll go".