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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.
These nuns don’t get out much
- Mar 25, 2015
Actually, they don’t get out much — they’re cloistered. So when they had the chance to meet Pope Francis at the Naples Cathedral last weekend, they went well, a little wild. The poor pope looks a little bewildered by the swarm, and at one point looked like he needed rescuing:
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