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Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith
3 days, 10 hours ago

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

Associated Press  

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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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns
3 days, 10 hours ago

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns

Associated Press  

Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. From sharing flip phones to wearing habits, nuns choose a radical life In August, Zoey Stapleton, 24, joined the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother — a community in rural Toronto, Ohio. Power found support through the Labouré Society, a Catholic nonprofit organization …

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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, 10 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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‘The Colours Within’ movie review: Naoko Yamada’s technicolour spectacle is a tender treat
1 month ago

‘The Colours Within’ movie review: Naoko Yamada’s technicolour spectacle is a tender treat

The Hindu  

Naoko Yamada has always been a filmmaker with a painter’s eye and a poet’s heart. A student at a Catholic boarding school, Totsuko doesn’t just see people — she sees them, thanks to a synesthetic gift that transforms personalities into swirling auras of colour. The Colours Within Director: Naoko Yamada Cast: Sayu Suzukawa, Akari Takaishi, Taisei Kido, Yui Aragaki Runtime: …

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My Mom Claimed A Convent Of Nuns Kept Her Hidden From The Nazis. Learning The Truth Changed My Life.
1 month, 1 week ago

My Mom Claimed A Convent Of Nuns Kept Her Hidden From The Nazis. Learning The Truth Changed My Life.

Huff Post  

I’m wedged in the back of a Toyota Corolla on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, next to Sister Honorata, an 83-year-old, five-foot-tall, extremely plump nun. They were more like mother and child.” Hearing her say Mom’s name made my pulse gallop. Hurry, so I don’t die before you come!” The author and Sister Honorata on the phone with the author's …

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‘You’re on the edge of your chair,’ Isabella Rossellini says of her ‘Conclave’
1 month, 1 week ago

‘You’re on the edge of your chair,’ Isabella Rossellini says of her ‘Conclave’

LA Times  

In the papal thriller “Conclave,” Isabella Rossellini’s character, Sister Agnes, is a woman of few words. As a Roman, you always looked at the Vatican as a place of great international meeting.” “They were not submissive,” Isabella Rossellini says of Catholic nuns. “I don’t think she would have spoken up on any other aspect of the church,” Rossellini says. The …

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Supreme Court dismisses pleas to exempt salaried nuns from paying income tax
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court dismisses pleas to exempt salaried nuns from paying income tax

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed 93 petitions from various missionaries to exempt salaried nuns from paying income tax. The missionaries had argued that nuns and priests enter a State of civil death when they take their vow of poverty and need not pay tax. The various ecclesiastical orders had challenged a December 1, 2014, Income Tax Department directive to …

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'Law Common For Everyone' : Supreme Court Rejects Plea Of Christian Nuns & Priests Against TDS Application To Their Salaries
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Law Common For Everyone' : Supreme Court Rejects Plea Of Christian Nuns & Priests Against TDS Application To Their Salaries

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today dismissed a batch of 93 appeals challenging the application of the Tax Deduction at Source on the salaries given to nuns and priests of the Catholic Church who are working as teachers in aided institutions. The bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing the challenge to the …

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The original Pirates of the Caribbean: Dutch book that accused Welsh-born buccaneer of using nuns and monks as human shields is set to fetch up to £70,000 at auction
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The original Pirates of the Caribbean: Dutch book that accused Welsh-born buccaneer of using nuns and monks as human shields is set to fetch up to £70,000 at auction

Daily Mail  

Using nuns and monks as human shields does sound like a tactic of Johnny Depp's swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow. In De Americaensche Zee- Roovers, author Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin accused English pirate Henry Morgan of using nuns and monks as human shields. Above: The book; right, its depiction of Morgan Johnny Depp seen as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of …

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Unconventional women — a hidden story of nuns
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Unconventional women — a hidden story of nuns

ABC  

Why did acclaimed actor Melissa Jaffer step away from the spotlight and the swinging 60s to enter a strict cloister of Australian nuns for 4 years? Sister Marian McClelland is the last of two surviving members of the same Australian order of contemplative nuns. They join Natasha Mitchell with oral historian Dr Sarah Gilbert, author of Unconventional Women: The story …

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Why these nuns have filed more than 350 shareholder resolutions
2 months ago

Why these nuns have filed more than 350 shareholder resolutions

NPR  

Why these nuns have filed more than 350 shareholder resolutions toggle caption Rose Conlon The sunflowers and wheat fields of rural Kansas are a long way from Wall Street. “So we started, very gradually, to set money aside.” Sponsor Message Stallbaumer said the sisters developed some ground rules: they wouldn’t invest in weapons-makers or fossil fuels. “But I don’t think …

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MAGA has a Catholic gender gap problem — and it could spell trouble for Trump
4 months ago

MAGA has a Catholic gender gap problem — and it could spell trouble for Trump

Salon  

Catholic school nuns practically canonized John F. Kennedy, never ceasing to remind us students that he was the first Catholic President. If lay Catholics are tepid in their support, many clergy are downright hostile toward the President, adopting what Timothy Busch of the right-wing Napa Institute calls “in-your-face Catholicism.” A large majority of the Council of Catholic Bishops voted to …

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The activist investor nuns taking on the world’s biggest companies
4 months, 1 week ago

The activist investor nuns taking on the world’s biggest companies

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When Butker suggested the women graduates …

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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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Why an Australian super fund and Texan nuns are lobbying the world’s biggest fast-food company
4 months, 1 week ago

Why an Australian super fund and Texan nuns are lobbying the world’s biggest fast-food company

ABC  

When it comes to McDonald's, an $84 billion Australian superannuation fund and a small group of Texan nuns are united in their mission. "It's really a significant problem," said Branwen Morgan, the lead at the Antimicrobial Resistance Mission at Australia's national science body, the CSIRO. "So antimicrobial resistance is a systemic threat to both global health and our ability to …

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Sacred Mysteries: Life story of the woman who built 40 churches
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Sacred Mysteries: Life story of the woman who built 40 churches

The Telegraph  

In the first decade of the 20th-century, a middle-aged single woman arranged and paid for the building of 40 churches mostly in south London. The churches, generally rectangular structures of London stock brick with a round window in the west end facing the road, are sometimes referred to as “Ellis boxes”, but they are by no means despicable in design …

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Missouri lawsuits allege abuse by Catholic priests, nuns. Archdiocese leader in Omaha among them
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Missouri lawsuits allege abuse by Catholic priests, nuns. Archdiocese leader in Omaha among them

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is among the accused. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court said the unnamed accuser was 16 when he met …

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The Pope prays for new priests and nuns as numbers plummet
5 months, 1 week ago

The Pope prays for new priests and nuns as numbers plummet

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Pope Francis has urged religious …

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Pope urges religious orders to pray for new priests and nuns as their numbers continue to fall
5 months, 1 week ago

Pope urges religious orders to pray for new priests and nuns as their numbers continue to fall

Associated Press  

ROME — Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men and women entering Catholic religious life plummeting in parts of the world. The Jesuit pope asked representatives of a half-dozen religious orders celebrating assemblies this …

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A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global
5 months, 1 week ago

A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global

The Independent  

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A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun’s message of compassion global
5 months, 1 week ago

A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun’s message of compassion global

Associated Press  

HUALIEN, Taiwan — When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Taiwan in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region’s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center. Stephen Huang, executive director of Tzu Chi’s global volunteers based in Southern California, became Cheng Yen’s disciple 35 years ago, during a time of personal grief — days after his …

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence won’t be at Dodgers’ Pride Night. Drag nuns are booked
6 months, 1 week ago

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence won’t be at Dodgers’ Pride Night. Drag nuns are booked

LA Times  

Sister Unity, left, and Sister Dominia accept the Dodgers’ Community Hero Award on behalf of the L.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during a pregame ceremony a Dodger Stadium on June 16, 2023. They are completely booked for all of Pride Month this year, something they credit to all the publicity they received a year ago during what founding member Sister …

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Dodgers’ Pride Night is back. Will there be protests after 2023 event honored drag nuns?
6 months, 1 week ago

Dodgers’ Pride Night is back. Will there be protests after 2023 event honored drag nuns?

LA Times  

Jody Bender holds a sign near where Christian and Catholic groups protest the Dodgers’ inclusion of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on June 16, 2023. The protest was in response to the Dodgers’ plan to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a satirical performance and activist organization made up of queer nuns in …

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Benedictine College nuns denounce Harrison Butker's speech at their school
7 months ago

Benedictine College nuns denounce Harrison Butker's speech at their school

NPR  

Benedictine College nuns denounce Harrison Butker's speech at their school Enlarge this image toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Charlie Riedel/AP An order of nuns affiliated with Benedictine College rejected Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison's Butker's comments in a commencement speech there last weekend that stirred up a culture war skirmish. "The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison …

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