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Religious sister tells how she discovered her vocation at a WYD thanks to Benedict XVI

August 5, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Speaking from World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, the “City of Joy,” a Iesu Communio (Communion in Jesus) sister shares her vocation story with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. / Credit: ACI Prensa/YouTube

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Fort Worth Diocese: Vatican says bishop has authority over Carmelite monastery amid investigation

May 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: CBS News Texas/YouTube

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Amid an ongoing legal dispute between the Diocese of Fort Worth and a Carmelite monastery, the di… […]

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‘What I can do is love’: This Catholic sister is a missionary to refugees in Greece

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Sr. Victoria Kovalchuk with a refugee girl in Athens, Greece in April 2021. / Alexey Gotovsky/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Sr. Victoria Kovalchuk wanted to be a missionary in South America, but God had other plans for the C… […]

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‘My Jesus’: Martyred Italian nun saw Christ in young people

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Rome Newsroom, Nov 27, 2020 / 11:00 am (CNA).- A religious sister who knew Venerable Maria Laura Mainetti said the woman, who was murdered 20 years ago as part of a Satanic ritual, made the ordinary extraordinary by her love, and found joy in her servi… […]

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