Austrian nuns who fled care home arrive in Rome, visit Vatican

A group of elderly Austrian nuns has arrived in Rome after departing their care home in circumstances that remain only partially understood, their journey to the Vatican drawing international attention to questions that have long lingered at the edges of institutional life: what happens when those entrusted to care for the vulnerable fail them, and what does it mean when the most fragile among us must flee to be heard? Their pilgrimage — deliberate, coordinated, and undertaken at great personal effort — places the quiet suffering of elderly residents in religious care squarely before the world