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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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Pope Francis meets Poor Clare nuns whose monastery was destroyed in 2009 earthquake

April 26, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Vatican City, Apr 26, 2021 / 11:02 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Monday met with a community of Poor Clare nuns, whose abbess died when the roof of their monastery collapsed in an earthquake in 2009.The cloistered nuns were… […]

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Women and the Protestant Reformation

October 28, 2017 Amy Welborn 8

Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman—it was […]

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The contemplative nuns who live “at the heart” of the Church

October 20, 2017 Jim Graves 3

The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are living a secluded monastic life in the middle of the Arizona desert. […]

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A New Age spin on the implosion of female religious orders can be found in this National Catholic Reporter story.  The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is contemplating the “fecundity of chaos” at its meeting in […]

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