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Catholic authorities in Spain excommunicate, expel renegade nuns

June 24, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The decision was announced by Mario Iceta, archbishop of Burgos. / Credit: Archdiocese of Burgos, Spain

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 24, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
The Catholic Church in Spain has decreed the excommunication and expulsion from consecrated… […]

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Schismatic Spanish nuns have last chance to avoid formal excommunication

June 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 17, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Burgos in Spain has granted an extension to the Poor Clares of Belorado, giving them a new deadline of Friday, June 21, to appear before an… […]

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Excommunication looms for renegade group of Poor Clares in Spain 

June 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

The Archbishop of Burgos, Mario Iceta, was appointed Pontifical Commissioner in the case. / Credit: Archdiocese of Burgos, Spain

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 10, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
The Ecclesiastical Court of the Archbishopric of Burgos in Spain h… […]

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Spain archbishop on schismatic nuns: ‘I don’t know if they realize the profound consequences’

May 21, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The schismatic decision of the Poor Clares "seems absolutely wrong to me" but we must see "if it is possible to heal it, cure it, reverse it," said Spanish Archbishop Mario Iceta. / Credit: Archdiocese of Burgos, Spain

ACI P… […]

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Blind from birth, Sister Chiara Antonella shares her story of music and prayer

December 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Monastery of Città della Pieve in Italy. / Credit: Monastery of Città della Pieve

ACI Stampa, Dec 26, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Sister Chiara Antonella has a very special story. Blind from birth, she has been able to put this adversity to good… […]

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Trust in divine providence: Poor Clare nun follows St. Clare of Assisi’s example

August 11, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration from the Our Lady of Solitude Monastery in Tonopah, Arizona, accompanied by their local priest. / Mother Marie Andre Campbell

Denver, Colo., Aug 11, 2023 / 10:13 am (CNA).
On Aug. 11, the Catholic Church c… […]

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Mother Angelica’s ‘first daughter’ Sister Regina dies

July 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 7

Sister Mary Regina of the Holy Angels, the first religious sister to join Mother Angelica’s monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, died July 22 at age 78 after a battle with cancer. / YouTube/EWTN July 24, 2023

Boston, Mass., Jul 28, 2023 / 14:30 pm… […]

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Mother Angelica’s hometown: a virtual tour of the key places that shaped her

April 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

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St. Louis, Mo., Apr 20, 2023 / 11:18 am (CNA).
Canton, Ohio, was a rough town in the 1920s. The Mafia ran the show, and crime was rampant. Children who grew up there faced a host of challenges almost unima… […]

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The little-known connection between hoops and holiness

November 24, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Denver, Colo., Nov 24, 2022 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The start of basketball season always coincides with the American holiday of Thanksgiving, lending a proper season to be grateful for the American-born sport. But precise… […]

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Pope Francis in Assisi: ‘It is time that the poor be given back their voice’

November 12, 2021 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi, Italy, Nov. 12, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Rome Newsroom, Nov 12, 2021 / 08:15 am (CNA).
In an emotional encounter in Assisi with people living in poverty, Pope Francis listened to t… […]

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