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

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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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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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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4 months, 1 week 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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9 months, 1 week ago

Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis

Associated Press

On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. “We’ve heard so much about priests who abuse and so little about nuns who abuse that it’s time to restore the balance,” said the group’s founder, Mary Dispenza, herself a former nun, in a speech to abuse survivors last year. NEW LAW OFFERS CHANCE FOR JUSTICE Before she found the support group …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Drag nuns in the outfield? Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence also invited to Angels’ Pride Night

LA Times

Members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the West Hollywood Pride parade in 2016. Anaheim’s mayor has invited the queer nuns to the Angels’ Pride Night in June after the Dodgers initially decided not to honor them at their Pride Night due to pressure from conservative Catholic groups. The mayor of Anaheim invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The end of an era for the Sisters of Charity of New York

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

Indigenous Canadians wary, hopeful as pope prepares apology

Associated Press

MASKWACIS, Alberta — To this day, Flo Buffalo doesn’t drink milk — not since two nuns force-fed her the sour milk she had refused at the Catholic-run Ermineskin Indian Residential School for Indigenous children that she attended in the 1960s. “Maybe it’s going to help me to heal and to have a little bit more inner peace,” she said after …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Piyush Goyal's Remarks on Nuns 'Shameful', Says Kerala CM

News 18

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday dubbed as “shameful” and “utter lie” Union Minister Piyush Goyal’s dismissal as “wrong” the reports that two nuns and two postulants belonging to a Kerala-based congregation were attacked during a train journey in UP recently. Vijayan’s reaction comes a day after the Union Minister had rejected the charge that the nuns and two …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Vijayan condemns 'harassment' of nuns by Hindu outfit members in UP

Deccan Chronicle

Thiruvalla: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday strongly condemned the alleged harassment of a group of nuns by some Bajrang Dal activists in UP's Jhansi recently and urged the Centre to take action, saying such incidents tarnish the image of the nation. In his letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Vijayan sought strict action against those "who disrupt …

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