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The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows [3] but live an active vocation of prayer and charitable work. In Christianity, nuns are found in the Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican and some Presbyterian traditions, as well as other Christian denominations. [1]
In the latter 20th century three Catholic women were declared Doctors of the Church: the 16th-century Spanish mystic, St Teresa of Ávila (who became the first female Doctor of the Church in 1970 [84]); [85] the 14th-century Italian mystic St Catherine of Siena [86] and the 19th-century French nun St Thérèse de Lisieux (called Doctor Amoris ...
The Catholic Church established many of the world's modern hospitals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. [1] It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries. [2]
"The growth and decline of the population of Catholic nuns cross-nationally, 1960-1990: A case of secularization as social structural change." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1996): 171-183. JSTOR 1387084; Fialka, John J. Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America (New York: St. Martin Press, 2003), popular journalism.
A religious sister (abbreviated: Sr.) [1] [2] in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer and labor, or a canoness regular, who provides a service to the world, either teaching or nursing ...
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 ...
The Medical Mission Sisters (MMS) is a religious congregation of women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in September 1925 with a goal of providing better access to health care to poor people around the world. [1] [2] They were formerly known as the "Society of the Catholic Medical Missions."
While the church believes Christians have the right to receive the sacraments, [34] the church does not believe in a right to ordination. [35] The church believes the sacraments work ex opere operato [36] as manifestations of Jesus' actions and words during his life, [37] and that according to dogma Jesus only chose certain men as apostles. [38]