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by bcadmin | Nov 21, 2022 | Celebrity, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, lead, News, Nuns, Religious Life | 0 |
In a disappointing, but perhaps, for some, unsurprising turn of events for fans of “Suor Cristina,” Italy’s most famous singing nun, the Ursuline sister and winner of a major vocal competition announced that she has left religious life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in Africa, Fulani, lead, News, Nigeria, Nuns, President Muhammadu Buhari | 0 |
“We are dealing here with a sustained campaign to wipe out Christianity in general and the Catholic church in particular. No Christian is safe,” said Johan Viljoen.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Africa, Church in Africa, Fulani, Kidnappings, lead, News, Nigeria, Nuns | 0 |
On Sunday unknown gunmen abducted four nuns in Nigeria’s Imo state, making the sisters the latest victims in a swath of kidnappings plaguing west African nation, many of which target the Catholic community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, International Union of Superiors General, lead, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, UISG, Vatican | 0 |
The newly-elected president of one of the largest international conglomerates of women religious, is set on creating a global network of collaboration among congregations based on Pope Francis’s much-touted spirit of synodality.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Australia, Catholic News Service, Christian music, Church in Oceania, News, Nuns, Obituary, pop music, Religious Sisters, South Australia | 0 |
Mercy Sister Janet Mead, who earned gold records for her 1974 hit version of the Our Father, died Jan. 26 in her native Adelaide. She was 84 and had been battling cancer.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 1, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Nuns, Pope Francis, pope's worldwide prayer network, Religious Sisters, The Pope Video, Vatican, violence against women | 0 |
ROME — Pope Francis encouraged religious sisters and consecrated women to continue to show courage amid difficulties, even if it means pushing back against the church they serve faithfully. “I invite them to fight when, in some cases, they are treated unfairly, even within the church; when they serve so […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 12, 2021 | Abuse, Associated Press, News, Nuns, Pope Francis, Religious Sisters, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis on Saturday drew attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who, because of their vows of obedience, have little recourse but to obey.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2021 | Book Review, Books, Convent, Fiction, Magazine, News, Nuns, October 2021 | 0 |
Matrix by Lauren Groff William Heinemann, £16.99, 272 pages __________ The 12th-century poet we know as Marie de France was, scholars argue, the greatest writer of short fiction before Boccaccio and Chaucer. Her lais – tantalisingly short romances written in octosyllabic couplets – are thought to rival the best that those great men had to
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Africa, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Human trafficking, Interviews, lead, modern day slavery, modern slavery, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, sex trafficking, Talitha Kum | 0 |
This year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is being observed July 30 under the theme, Victims’ Voices Lead The Way.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters | 0 |
Comboni Sister Tseghereda Yohannes said she was caught off guard when she was appointed secretary-general of the Eritrean bishops’ conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 9, 2021 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Associated Press, Church in the US, Embezzlement, Los Angeles, News, Nuns | 0 |
A Los Angeles nun who took a vow of poverty has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges for stealing more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Associated Press, Australia, Carbon offsets, Catholic Church, Church in Oceania, coal mining, Environment Ecology, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters | 0 |
A group of Australian child environmentalists lost their court bid Thursday to force the federal government to ban a coal mine expansion.
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