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  2. Women in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The role of women in the church has become a controversial topic in Catholic social thought. [6] Christianity's overall effect on women is a matter of historical debate; it rose out of patriarchal societies but lessened the gulf between men and women. The institution of the convent has offered a space for female self-government, power, and ...

  3. 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.

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

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    The first women religious in what would become the United States, were fourteen French Ursuline nuns who arrived in New Orleans in July 1727, [5] and opened Ursuline Academy, which continues in operation and is the oldest continuously operating school for girls in the United States.

  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. Nun - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, nuns are members of enclosed religious orders and take solemn religious vows, while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows called "simple vows". [4] As monastics, nuns living within an enclosure historically commit to recitation of the full Divine Office throughout the day in church, usually in a solemn ...

  7. Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith

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    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 community and begin the long process to become nuns. Here are their stories. From Ghana to Texas to a New Orleans convent

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

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    Horan felt calling to teach while still a student. Horan, 59, felt a calling to teach while attending Catholic schools in Pottstown, where nuns from many different religious orders taught classes ...

  9. 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]