Nuns ‘treated like servants’ by bishops and cardinals, Vatican magazine says
March 2, 2018
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Women religious said they often felt underappreciated for their services
Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/10/17
October 19, 2017
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Court: Company can take nuns’ land to build natural gas pipeline
August 30, 2017
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A judge discounted the freedom of religion argument posed by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ
No matter what their detractors say, convent schools provided a great education
June 23, 2017
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Almost all who have had the privilege of being educated in convents remember nuns whose lives were ones of fulfilment, vigour and purpose
Pope Francis concerned by ‘haemorrhage’ of priests and nuns from Church
January 30, 2017
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The Pontiff told participants at a Vatican event on religious life that the loss of clergy is weakening the Church
The nuns who have doctors baffled
December 8, 2016
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Doctors are unable to explain why a nun’s brain fully invaded with Alzheimer’s kept functioning at a high level
French bishop opens sainthood cause for founder of Tyburn Nuns
December 6, 2016
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Mother Marie Adele Garnier claimed she saw a consecrated host bleed in the hands of a priest
HHS contraceptive mandate in limbo awaiting action by Trump administration
November 28, 2016
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Attorney representing Little Sisters of the Poor is ‘optimistic’ some or all of the Affordable Care Act will be repealed
Get thee from the nunnery
October 26, 2016
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The Reformation may have caused women’s religious roles to be set back centuries
What I owe my ‘crazy’ nuns
October 20, 2016
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Our nuns taught us that strong, well-organised women can run things without being bossed about by men
Convent welcomes first English Sister in 40 years
September 6, 2016
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The Sisters at the Daughters of Divine Charity convent, in Norfolk, run a nursery, a care home and school
Prosecutor undecided on death penalty after killing of nuns
August 30, 2016
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The nuns’ order has said it opposes the death penalty and said the sisters’ murders do ‘not demand revenge’