Malta archdiocese distances itself from controversial lay movement
- Jul 14, 2020
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Cloistered nuns share advice on coping with virus sheltering
- May 2, 2020
Cloistered nuns are experts on staying put — so a stay-at-home order doesn’t change their daily lives. But for those outside the monastery — whose lives are disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic — sisters have some sage words.
In the time of COVID-19, the cloistered life offers lessons for the world
- Mar 18, 2020
Cloistered nuns have been “self isolating” for centuries: They can offer advice for people quarantined by COVID-19.
Pope makes day trip to cloistered Poor Clares in Umbria
- Jan 11, 2019
Pope Francis left the Vatican Jan. 11 to visit a community of cloistered Poor Clare nuns in Umbria.
Vatican okays social media, autonomy for contemplative nuns
- May 16, 2018
The Vatican presents its ovehaul instruction for contemplative female religious orders.
Pope meets unseen warriors in his battle against ‘throwaway culture’
- Jan 21, 2018
Pope Francis on Sunday met with a group of contemplative women religious, and urged them to keep pressing the spiritual battle against what he calls a “throw-away” culture.
Cloistered nun earns Ph.D. in aerospace engineering
- Jun 9, 2016
A 32-year-old Catholic nun in India, Sister Benedicta of the Holy Face, who was born in Kuwait in 1983, is a member of a cloistered convent, and the first time she set foot outside it was to receive her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from a prestigious national defense institute.
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