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Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith
3 days, 5 hours ago

Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith

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NEW ORLEANS — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print “I wanted a husband like my dad. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Sr. Ann Elise Sonnier, left, and Sister Clara Mae …

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Meet the young women joining the ranks of Catholic nuns, a journey that can take up to ten years
3 days, 6 hours ago

Meet the young women joining the ranks of Catholic nuns, a journey that can take up to ten years

Associated Press  

PALMYRA, Pa. — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Sister Catherine Lynn Forsythe, left, and Sister Joan Paule Portenlanger of the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Sister Seyram Mary …

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Prayerful, playful, mystical: Some of AP’s most compelling religion photos of 2024
5 days, 6 hours ago

Prayerful, playful, mystical: Some of AP’s most compelling religion photos of 2024

Associated Press  

Fittingly, in photographs depicting aspects of faith, it’s often the light that is most riveting. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print A riverboat carrying the Eucharist cruises down the Ohio River between Wellsburg, West Virginia, and Brilliant, Ohio, Sunday, June 23, 2024. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest …

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Today he is a high school football player. Soon he’ll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas
1 month ago

Today he is a high school football player. Soon he’ll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas

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ISANTI, Minn. — The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print U.S.-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, shows his Drake London, Atlanta …

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Appeals stretch 4 decades for a prisoner convicted on little police evidence
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Appeals stretch 4 decades for a prisoner convicted on little police evidence

Associated Press  

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — The four men who put Steve Szarewicz away for murder all changed their stories at one time or another, yet Szarewicz still sits behind bars. This is a July 25, 2024, photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections of Steve Szarewicz, who insists he was wrongly convicted of a 1981 murder based on the testimony …

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How Trump’s lies about pet-eating migrants brought misery to Springfield, Ohio
3 months ago

How Trump’s lies about pet-eating migrants brought misery to Springfield, Ohio

LA Times  

A disturbing scenario has played out at public schools across Springfield, Ohio, in recent days, with children turned away as they arrive or, worse, rushed out of classrooms, all because of bomb threats. As one woman put it, daily life has been “turned upside down by such vitriol and ignorance.” On Thursday, Springfield Mayor Rob Rue issued a proclamation granting …

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How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism
4 months, 1 week ago

How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism

Associated Press  

ATCHISON, Kansas — Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. “Some of these companies, they just really hate us,” said Sister Barbara McCracken, who leads the nuns’ corporate responsibility program. The sun rises over the grounds of the Mount St. Scholastica Benedictine sisters’ monastery. Sister Elaine Fischer rides through the Mount …

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After the end of Roe, a new beginning for maternity homes
4 months, 3 weeks ago

After the end of Roe, a new beginning for maternity homes

Associated Press  

ORANGE, Va. — On the wall of the maternity home, painted in large letters, is the motto: “Saving Babies, One Mom at a Time.” For founders Randy and Evelyn James, the home started with one baby — their own. “It’s been a significant increase,” said Valerie Harkins, director of the Maternity Housing Coalition, a nonprofit anti-abortion network of 195 maternity …

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US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Native tribes
6 months ago

US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Native tribes

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby communities. The U.S. government on Tuesday, …

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No twerking. No drinking. No smoking. But plenty of room for Jesus at this Christian nightclub
9 months, 3 weeks ago

No twerking. No drinking. No smoking. But plenty of room for Jesus at this Christian nightclub

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The young crowd at a Nashville nightclub was ready to dance under the strobe lights to a throbbing mix of hip-hop, rap and Latin beats. For weeks, on its Instagram account — under hashtags like #jesuschrist #nightclubs — club organizers asked people to be ready to dance the worship night away and look their best: “When you …

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Biden praises ‘Herculean efforts’ to rebuild at the site of last February’s Ohio train derailment
10 months, 1 week ago

Biden praises ‘Herculean efforts’ to rebuild at the site of last February’s Ohio train derailment

Associated Press  

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — President Joe Biden on Friday surveyed the federal cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, more than a year after an explosive fire from a derailed train carrying hazardous chemicals, and saw up close the lingering hostility from victims still angry that he waited so long to visit. Addressing residents, Biden said he wanted them to understand “that …

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Native Hawaiian salt makers combat climate change and pollution to protect a sacred tradition
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Native Hawaiian salt makers combat climate change and pollution to protect a sacred tradition

Associated Press  

HANAPEPE, Hawaii — On a warm summer afternoon, Tina Taniguchi was on her hands and knees scraping dirt off an oblong depression in the ground. “It’s hard work, but for me it’s also play,” Taniguchi said, adding with a laugh, “I play in the mud all day.” Taniguchi’s family is one of 22 who over generations have dedicated themselves to …

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Pilgrims yearn to visit an isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii’s leprosy patients
1 year ago

Pilgrims yearn to visit an isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii’s leprosy patients

Associated Press  

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. “You don’t want a million people going there every year.” Kyong Son Toyofuku, second from left, and her husband, Lance Toyofuku, center, arrive at the former leprosy colony with sisters and residents of the settlement. Missionaries, like Father Damien and Mother Marianne — who also became a Catholic saint following her …

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How a massive all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple ended up on Hawaii’s lush Kauai Island
1 year, 1 month ago

How a massive all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple ended up on Hawaii’s lush Kauai Island

Associated Press  

KAPAA, Hawaii — It is the only all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple in the West built without power tools or electricity, and it’s nestled on one of the smaller islands in Hawaii surrounded by lush gardens and forests. “Here, it is nearly impossible, but it has been done.” The order’s origin story began in 1948 with founder Subramuniyaswami, a former San …

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Far from Israel, Jews grieve and pray for peace in Shabbat services held as Israel-Hamas war rages
1 year, 2 months ago

Far from Israel, Jews grieve and pray for peace in Shabbat services held as Israel-Hamas war rages

Associated Press  

Jews in communities far from Israel gathered at synagogues this weekend for Shabbat services held amid the ongoing war ignited by Hamas militants’ attack on Israel a week earlier. It’s that Hamas wants the destruction of you and me.” “The world deserves better, the Palestinian people deserve better and we need to do better.” Despite that anguish, Fellman’s congregation – …

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Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship
1 year, 6 months ago

Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship

Associated Press  

LIBERTA, Antigua — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana. “We’re more free now,” said Ras Tashi, a member of the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari, who was arrested several times for growing cannabis but refused …

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Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
1 year, 9 months ago

Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

Associated Press  

PITTSBURGH — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. Even as they fight to regain custody of their daughter, they can’t question the “risk score” Allegheny County’s tool may have assigned to her case …

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