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Vatican Cardinal In Charge Of Religious Orders Says He Was Sidelined In Crackdown Of U.S. Nuns

2013-05-06T19:34:30Z

By Alessandro Speciale
Religion News Service

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The head of the Vatican department that oversees men’s and women’s religious ...

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'Nuns On The Bus' Will Hit The Road For Immigration Reform

2013-05-01T18:19:50Z

By David Gibson
Religion News Service

NEW YORK (RNS) The “Nuns on the Bus” are revving up their engines for another national campaign, only th...

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Sister Mary Pendergast: Massachusetts Faith Leaders Go On Offense To Stop Keystone Pipeline

2013-04-30T11:50:30Z

Responding to the campaign, an astounding 70,000 online actions were generated by Massachusetts voters. There may be some powerful special interests behind Keystone, but the Massachusetts primary has shown that the people still have a voice.

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Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Pope Francis And The Ongoing Reform Of The Leadership Conference Of Women Religious

2013-04-15T13:24:26Z

Pope Francis is brand new to his job, and it would have been odd for him, as some may have expected, to essentially undo a process that has been in the works for several years.

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Rev. Emily C. Heath: St. Francis, Pope Francis And Being 'Right Sized'

2013-03-20T11:22:02Z

Though I'm not a Catholic, I'm always genuinely inspired by followers of Christ who try to live lives of true humility and true right-sizedness. I hope, for both the sake of his church and the church universal, that Pope Francis lives into the name he has chosen for himself.

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Carolyn Custis James: Pink Smoke And Protestant Popes

2013-03-20T10:57:48Z

The key to achieving the reform so desperately needed by both Catholic and Protestant churches was right under Pope Francis' nose the moment he stepped out on the Vatican balcony. Clues can be found in a cloud of pink smoke and in the legacy of his patron saint, Francis of Assisi.

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Norma Cook Everist: Remember Vatican II Because Who Becomes Pope Matters To The Rest Of Us

2013-03-04T13:07:51Z

The leadership of any faith body impacts the way all religions do or do not interact respectfully and productively for the common good of the world.

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New Study Slams Mother Teresa

2013-03-04T13:07:54Z

A new study by Canadian academics says Mother Teresa was a product of hype who housed the poor and sick in shoddy conditions, despite her access to a ...

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Patty Kogutek: From Nun To None

2013-02-26T17:09:00Z

My journey going from nun to none has been one of finding my true spirituality weaving my beliefs with those that I grew up with. Let us all learn with and from each other as we celebrate the journey together as the "one" that we are.

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Cathy Cash Spellman: What Would Jesus Do About The Catholic Church?

2013-02-26T15:17:52Z

The Faith He envisioned was not the hierarchical structure of a Church that has so often in the past made wrong decisions and said it was doing so in His name.

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Claire McCarthy, M.D.: Why I'm Happy My Daughter Is An Altar Server

2013-02-25T14:52:57Z

She is a child who has not only been raised in the traditions and tenets of the Catholic church, but raised to think and to question, raised to believe that all people are created equal, including gays and women. When I see her hold that cross proudly and walk down the aisle, it gives me hope.

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow: From Vashti And Esther To Women Of The Wall And U.S. Nuns

2013-02-22T11:16:16Z

This year on Purim, let us celebrate the courage to defy authority, to affirm and defend whoever are the "strangers" in our midst and whoever has been excluded from dignity and empowerment.

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Clay Farris Naff: In Resigning, Pope Benedict XVI Finds His Finest Hour

2013-02-12T10:15:12Z

If the Church and the world are fortunate, perhaps the winter of papal resignation will be followed by a spring of reform.

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Will The Next Pope Make A Difference?

2013-02-11T10:00:32Z

It will really take a miracle, the suffusion of the College by the Holy Spirit, the Interbreathing Spirit of all life, to change the Church by election of a pope more in the tradition of Jesus and John XXIII.

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Norma Cook Everist: Local Groups Anywhere Make a Difference Everywhere

2013-02-07T14:54:34Z

We are connected. We need each other everywhere to work towards and sustain cultures of nonviolence.

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Report: Ireland Oversaw Abusive Catholic Laundries

2013-02-05T11:44:42Z

DUBLIN — Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and us...

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Mark Canavera: Nuns, LGBT Youth and the Power of a Single Song

2013-01-31T17:17:06Z

The lyricist and composer of the song "You're Not Alone" both felt a tremendous sense of responsibility to create a song that would resonate with LGBT youth and provide them with assurance and hope amidst hostile environments.

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2 NY Nun Siblings, 96 And 98, Die A Day Apart

2013-01-23T11:25:14Z

MENANDS, N.Y. — They were born sisters and worked as Roman Catholic sisters for decades before spending their last years living in the same upst...

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Sister Mary Ann Walsh: The Nuns Who Form Us

2012-11-28T14:00:08Z

None of them thought what they were doing was extraordinary because such giving is an ordinary part of their lives. That's how it is with religious sisters: God's goodness courses through them.

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Roy Bourgeois Dismissed From Religious Order By Vatican

2012-11-20T10:48:09Z

By Joshua J. McElwee for the National Catholic Reporter.

Roy Bourgeois, a longtime peace activist and priest who had come under scrutiny for his su...

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Nuns Express Their Own Personal Style, Too

2012-11-05T08:00:00Z

How women of the cloth display their own fashion sense.

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Mary Sharratt: 8 Reasons Why Hildegard Matters Now

2012-10-27T09:33:28Z

On Oct. 7, 873 years after her death, the Vatican finally gave her the highest recognition for her considerable achievements. She was elevated to Doctor of the Church, a rare and solemn title reserved for theologians who have significantly impacted Church doctrine.

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Julie Leininger Pycior: Catholic Nuns, The Vatican And Straight But Crooked Lines

2012-10-05T16:58:15Z

At present there is a standoff between the Vatican and the organization that represents 80 percent of American nuns. The hierarchy likely will break the stalemate right after the noisy election season. But what seems like a straight, rigid line looks more convoluted on further examination.

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Sister Mary Ann Walsh: Fighting False Balance In The Media

2012-10-05T11:30:26Z

Reports on Catholicism are especially vulnerable to false balance, and often it is achieved through manipulation of the name "Catholic" and religious symbols such as veils and Roman collars.

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Nuns Criticize 'Ridiculous' Voter ID Law

2012-10-02T00:01:00Z

A group of retired Pennsylvania nuns has criticized the state's contested voter identification law as "unkind, unfair and ridiculous" because of the h...

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