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Vatican religious prefect: ‘I was left out of LCWR finding’

May 6, 2013 0:45
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(NCR) The controversial Vatican decision last year to place the main representative group of U.S. Catholic sisters under...
New book on American nuns tells tales of sacrifice, dedication, faith

Apr 5, 2013 4:25

(Catholic Philly) It started with 12 and how appropriate that would be. That was in 1727, when 12 Ursuline Sisters arrived...
With new pope, Catholic women hope to regain Church leadership roles

Apr 2, 2013 5:15

(NPR) The newly elected pope’s focus on the poor and the marginalized has instilled great faith among many Catholic...
Jesuit pope offers hope to US nuns targeted in Vatican crackdown

Mar 22, 2013 1:44

(AP) The election of a Jesuit pope devoted to the poor and stressing a message of mercy rather than condemnation has brought...
LCWR receives Paulist award for social justice work

Jan 29, 2013 6:28

Franciscan Sr. Florence Deacon, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, accepts the 2013 Isaac Hecker...
A New Inquisition: The Vatican targets US nuns

Dec 19, 2012 0:09

(The Global Post) Sister Pat Farrell and three other nuns crossed St. Peter’s Square through the fabled white columns,...
Speakers say US sisters were at forefront of implementing Vatican II

Dec 14, 2012 1:07

(CNS) In responding to the Second Vatican Council’s call to universal holiness, American women religious have been...
Bishops and American nuns hold ‘cordial and open’ meeting

Nov 14, 2012 4:50

Three Catholic bishops met with leaders of the American nuns’ group they are tasked with overhauling in an “open...
Documentary on U.S. nuns chronicles transformation into world citizens

Oct 17, 2012 7:10

From left, Mary Fishman talks with Mercy Srs. JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy during the filming of “Band of Sisters.” (Christian...
Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party protests in Ohio

Oct 17, 2012 6:52

The “Nuns on the Bus” have been a consistently popular and effective faith-based tool for religious progressives...

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