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2. Mother Angelica - Wikipedia

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   Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation PCPA [3] (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo; April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016), commonly referred to as Mother Angelica, was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.

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

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   In 1854 the New York Children's Aid Society began sending orphans and neglected children to live outside the city. The majority were sent to the West and Midwest. In 1875, the Sisters initiated a similar program working in conjunction with priests throughout the Midwest and South in an effort to place these children in Catholic families.

4. 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.

5. Pope urges religious orders to pray for new priests and nuns ...

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   Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men and ...

6. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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   mendicants (friars and religious sisters, possibly living and working in a friary or a convent, who live from alms, recite the Divine Office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and; monastics (monks and nuns living and working in a monastery or a nunnery and reciting the Divine Office).

7. Priesthood in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   A group of priests with two bishops in Batangas City, Philippines, 2024. The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms priest refers only to presbyters and pastors ...

8. Do priests and nuns watch pornography? Yes, pope admits ... - AOL

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   The pope spoke to and answered questions from a group of seminarians and priests studying in Rome, Italy, on Monday, Oct. 24, according to the full text of the event published on Vatican City’s ...

9. Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   It can change" but added: "For the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with all its pros and cons, because we have ten centuries of good experiences rather than failures.... Tradition has weight and validity." [76] He said that now the rule must be strictly adhered to, and any priest who cannot obey it "has to leave the ministry."