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  • [ April 21, 2026 ] PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV visits Equatorial Guinea as Africa visit draws to a close News Briefs
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Called by God from childhood, triplets from Brazil belong to the same religious order

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Triplets María Gorete dos Santos, María de Lourdes dos Santos, and María Aparecida dos Santos, 57, are all nuns belonging to the Franciscan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. / Credit: Courtesy of Sister María Gorete dos Santos

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Record Turkey Prices – “Thanksgiving dinner will cost 20% more this year compared to last year.” Thanksgiving Necessary for National Renewal (The Association of Mature American Citizens) Latin Mass Revival – An ancient form of […]

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Ortega dictatorship expels another religious congregation from Nicaragua

September 22, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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Denver Newsroom, Sep 22, 2022 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has expelled the Religious Sisters of the Cross, thus continuing its attacks against the Catholic Chu… […]

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Sister Simone Campbell to be among Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

July 1, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

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Denver Newsroom, Jul 1, 2022 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
Sister Simone Campbell, former executive director of the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, will re… […]

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Six years ago today these religious sisters died in Yemen

March 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Faces of the martyrs of Yemen. / Apostolic Vicariate of South Arabia

Aden, Mar 4, 2022 / 17:10 pm (CNA).
Their chaplain, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, told them every day to be ready for martyrdom. On this particular day in Yemen six years ago, t… […]

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Spanish nuns evacuated from Ukraine: Christ was with us in the Blessed Sacrament 

March 3, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Refugees from Ukraine arrive at Przemyśl Główny train station in Poland / Caritas Poland.

Madrid, Spain, Mar 3, 2022 / 16:19 pm (CNA).
Before war broke out in Ukraine, Sisters María, María Jesús, and Antonia of the Missionaries of the Congregat… […]

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French Catholic nun turns 118, making her the second oldest person in the world

February 11, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

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Toulon, France, Feb 11, 2022 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
Sister Andre Randon, a French nun, celebrated her 118th birthday on Feb. 11. This milestone makes her the second-oldest living person in the world and the oldest … […]

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Pope Francis tells religious sisters fight back when mistreated by ‘men of the Church’

February 1, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis meets religious sisters at a general audience on Jan. 19, 2022. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, Feb 1, 2022 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis told religious sisters’ to fight back when they are treated unfairly or “reduced to servitude”… […]

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The Discalced Carmelite Sisters of Fairfield and Vatican document Cor Orans

November 20, 2021 Jim Graves 215

The Discalced Carmelite Sisters of Fairfield, Pennsylvania of the Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph were established in 2018, an outgrowth of a Carmel convent in Valparaiso, Nebraska.  Following the beliefs of the great Carmelite […]

The Dispatch

Those other women in the Church

November 15, 2021 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 15

The role of women in the Church, and, particularly, how women can occupy more positions of power within her, has been a major discussion point in Pope Francis’s pontificate. Francis offered an address to a […]

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