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  2. Enclosed religious orders - Wikipedia

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    Benedictine monks, for instance, have often staffed parishes and been allowed to leave monastery confines. Although the English word nun is often used to describe all Christian women who have joined religious institutes, strictly speaking, women are referred to as nuns only when they live in papal enclosure; otherwise, they are religious ...

  3. Dominican Order - Wikipedia

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    Nuns were to be silent in places of prayer, the cloister, the dormitory, and refectory. Silence was maintained unless the prioress granted an exception for a specific cause. Speaking was allowed in the common parlor, but it was subordinate to strict rules, and the prioress, subprioress or other senior nun had to be present. [36]

  4. Parlour - Wikipedia

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    A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members. In the English-speaking world of the 18th and 19th century ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 'It's my happy place': Two Catholic nuns keep teaching ...

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    Aside from being the only nun teaching regularly at Erie Catholic schools, the 73-year-old Fusco is also one of the system's oldest teachers. When the subject is mentioned, Horan interjects, 'Don ...

  7. Monastery of the Poor Clares (Cerreto Sannita) - Wikipedia

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    To the left is access to the room where the wheel of outcasts [35] was once located, which allowed the nuns to exchange artifacts with the outside world. The next room, on the other hand, is the parlor. Here the nuns would talk, through a grate, with relatives. The path the Poor Clares took to reach the parlor, behind the gratings, is of interest.

  8. Nun - Wikipedia

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    This has allowed for communities of nuns (or, in some cases, mixed communities of nuns and monks) to be re-established in some Protestant traditions. Many of these are within the episcopal Lutheran tradition and the closeness of Lutheranism with Anglicanism in its belief and practice has led to local arrangements of inter-Communion between the ...

  9. Anglican religious order - Wikipedia

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    Members of religious communities may be known as monks or nuns, particularly in those communities which require their members to live permanently in one location; they may be known as friars or sisters, a term used particularly (though not exclusively) by religious orders whose members are more active in the wider community, often living in smaller groups.