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Umbrella group for women religious addresses nuns with children
- Vatican
- Sep 6, 2019
A new letter from the global umbrella group of women religious has said the children of nuns must receive care, and acknowledged that in some cases, consecrated women will give their children up for adoption and return to their order.
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Catholic women divided over pope’s remarks on female deacons
- Vatican
- May 15, 2019
Women canonists, theologians react to Pope Francis’s words on the female diaconate and ask for more transparency and openness,
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Pope discusses deaconesses, need for nuns to be servants not ‘maids’
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- May 12, 2019
Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world they need to send sisters on assignments that truly serve the Church and those in need, and not agree to requests for “maids.”
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Holy boldness: Profile of women religious rising at Vatican
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- May 5, 2019
The Vatican can move at a snail’s pace but looking back over the past six years, the profile of women, especially women religious, at Vatican events has risen sharply.
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Women religious to gather in Rome searching for the ‘new’
- Vatican
- May 3, 2019
About 850 superior generals will convene in Rome next week to discuss the role of women religious today, and “novelty” is in the air.
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A synod sneak peek, theology v. ideology, and the hour of the nuns
- News Analysis
- Mar 6, 2019
It remains to be seen what a Vatican-sponsored interfaith conference this week on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals may produce, but at least three conclusions can be drawn even before the meeting begins.
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