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  2. Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pioneer Healers: The History of Women Religious in American Health Care (1989) 375pp; Stewart, George C. Marvels of Charity: History of American Sisters and Nuns (1994), the most detailed coverage, with many lists and photos of different habits. Sullivan, Mary C. Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy (1995) Wall, Barbra Mann.

  3. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

  4. Sex and gender roles in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    And they were unable to become nuns in the Catholic Church society. [59] The women were only to "be recipients of God’s divine favor and protection if they followed the tenets of the Catholic Church"; the rules and regulations for women were evidently more strict and rigid than those for men. [59]

  5. Consecrated virgin - Wikipedia

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    [2] Significantly, nuns who belong to certain religious institutes continue to be the only religious virgins permitted to receive the consecration of virgins, as active religious sisters are not eligible for this consecration. The newly consecrated virgin still receives a veil as a sign of her consecration, as in ancient times. The exception is ...

  6. Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith - AOL

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    Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious ...

  7. Nun - Wikipedia

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    Women Religious in the Church: a directory of individual orders / institutes. Southport: Gowland. ISBN 1-872480-14-4. McGuinness, Margaret M. (2013). Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America. New York University Press. 266 pages; McNamara, Jo Ann Kay (1998). Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia. Excerpt and text search

  8. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Religious life is a distinct vocation in itself, and women live in consecrated life as a nun or religious sister, and throughout the history of the Church it has not been uncommon for an abbess to head a dual monastery, i.e., a community of men and women. Women today exercise many roles in the Church.

  9. Black Catholic nuns: A compelling, long-overlooked history

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    The story is told chronologically, yet always in the context of a theme Williams outlines in her preface: that the nearly 200-year history of these nuns in the U.S. has been overlooked or ...