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Former nuns in Rupnik abuse case reveal identities while calling for ‘complete transparency’
February 22, 2024
ROME – Two former nuns in the sexual abuse case involving former Jesuit priest Marko Ivan Rupnik, the famed Catholic artist, have revealed their names publicly for the first time while demanding complete transparency in the Vatican investigation as it moves forward. They have also called for a full inquiry into what they say has
Six kidnapped Sisters freed in Haiti
January 25, 2024
Six religious Sisters kidnapped by armed assailants in Haiti on 19 January have been freed. The group was released late on Wednesday, 25 January, and all the nuns are in good condition, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press. “Thanks to God for helping us,” said Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor. He declined to confirm whether a ransom was
FEATURE: ‘The Last Priests and Nuns in Ireland’ – a missed opportunity to move beyond the same old tropes
January 25, 2024
I get a knot of anxiety in my stomach when I hear news of another documentary about religion or, rather, about Catholicism in Ireland. It isn’t because I am squeamish and don’t want to face up to the scandals the Church has faced and been part of in Ireland, or because I can’t deal with
A readable yarn but none too credible
October 02, 2021
Matrix by Lauren Groff  William Heinemann, £16.99, 272 pages __________ The 12th-century poet we know as Marie de France was, scholars argue, the greatest writer of short fiction before Boccaccio and Chaucer. Her lais – tantalisingly short romances written in octosyllabic couplets – are thought to rival the best that those great men had to
Biden’s HHS Secretary Enjoys Bullying Nuns (For Having the Wrong Religion)
April 29, 2021
Joe Biden's Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, was in the news again in recent days, after a relatively quiet time in office after his confirmation by the Senate. He was again taking up again a hobby for which he was famous in his former role as Attorney General of California: bullying Catholic nuns.
Nuns ‘treated like servants’ by bishops and cardinals, Vatican magazine says
March 02, 2018
Women religious said they often felt underappreciated for their services
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October 19, 2017
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Court: Company can take nuns’ land to build natural gas pipeline
August 30, 2017
A judge discounted the freedom of religion argument posed by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ
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