Angels on Earth magazine

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I HELD my Mother’s Day card close as I walked into the house. I’d just returned from a visit to the Mother of God Monastery in West Springfield, Massachusetts, where my daughter Mary was finding her vocation as a contemplative nun. The monastery made

The Independent

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Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St. Catherine, steps from Santorini’s world-famous volcanic cliffs. Inside this convent on one of the trendiest

The Atlantic

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In 1966, Nancy Bancroft entered a convent, took the habit, and changed her name. Seven years later, she chose to leave—and rejoined a radically changed world.

Post Magazine

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Every now and then, a movie comes along that makes you wonder about meaning, purpose, life itself. Novitiate, by a brilliant filmmaker Maggie Betts, is such a movie. Someone took me to see it, with much resistance from me. Who wants to watch a movie

NPR

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Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, who had battled Perry and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles over a property sale, was in court for a post-judgment hearing related to the case.

NPR

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Bless us, sister, for audiences will have the living bejeezus scared out of them when "The Nun" opens in cinemas nationwide on Friday.

History Revealed

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Describing Church history can give the impression that it is a history of men. Kings, popes, bishops and clergy dominate it, while the roles of women are less apparent. But this is mostly due to surviving records than real circumstances; women made u

Best Self Magazine

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— As a young mother I could not find a spiritual home, this despite the fact that I lived in a town with five Christian churches, a synagogue, any number of yoga studios, a Greek Orthodox monastery, a Tibetan Monastery, and a Zen Monastery. The probl

City Press

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The Catholic Church in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape is still haunted by fear and anxiety after five nuns succumber to the Covid-19 coronavirus early this month. Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of the Diocese of Mthatha, said 17 other nuns at the Missionary S

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Friday found that restaurant owner Dana Hollister intentionally interfered with singer Katy Perry's attempts to purchase a former convent from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Perry's drawn-out legal fig

The Christian Science Monitor

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Nuns & Nones brings together sisters and spiritually oriented Millennials. The life-changing conversations that have resulted show what can happen when unlikely pairings are made.

Bloom Magazine UK

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Nestled in Anjou in western France, the Benedictine nunnery of Martigné-Briand is a lush haven amid a landscape of rural and farmed land dotted with picturesque castles. Looking for a place of retreat far from Paris – somewhere peaceful to pray, rest

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES — For nearly a century, the cloistered nuns of the Monastery of the Angels have lived quietly on a rambling four-acre property just beneath the "H" of Los Angeles' famous Hollywood sign. From this incongruous location, they bake their fam

Literary Hub

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“When your book comes out, I’m going to give Father Tumino a copy so he can advertise it to the whole parish—get you some extra sales.” This is my grandfather, a 91-year-old diabetic retired leprechaun with a suit in every color that he dons on a rot

Dumbo Feather

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The week I moved into the convent was the week that the sky turned dark with smoke. California was burning at a record-breaking scale, the city of Paradise decimated with untold numbers of lives lost, and here I was, driving in the direction of the f

Los Angeles Times

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They're not made very often, and audiences don't always applaud (Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story" is the notable exception), but films dealing with what goes on behind convent or monastery walls have what it takes to involve. As those who've seen

TIME

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THE LAST COUPLE of days have been like déjà vu: an unhinged white guy, middle-aged, filled with hate and rage. Only this time he walked into a synagogue, not a church, and pulled out a gun and started shooting. He killed people simply because they we

Finweek - English

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This issue’s isiZulu word is isiko. Isiko is a custom or tradition or practice. Amisiko (plural) are often specific to particular cultures, and in a country like ours can be contested and be divisive. Take the case of those that honour isiko of slaug

NPR

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A #NunsToo movement has emerged from #MeToo, as Roman Catholic nuns start speaking out about sexual abuse by priests. Cases of rape and forced abortion have begun coming to light.

Lion's Roar

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AS WITH MUCH OF SOTO ZEN in Japan, there is a lot that Westerners don’t know about the world of Japanese nuns. At the forefront of their lineage and training is Shundo Aoyama Roshi: an enigma, a rock star, a laughing buddha, and a fiercely dedicated,

Los Angeles Times

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Jacques Rivette's 1966 film, "La Religieuse (The Nun)," might be one of the greatest prison movies ever made and certainly one of the most controversial. The prison is a Catholic convent, and the inmate we are following is Suzanne Simonin (Anna Karin

Literary Hub

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In April 1948, Wallace Stevens received a letter from a nun. Her name was Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn, and she was completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin. It was their first correspondence, and she’d enclosed some notes on his poetry, for w

The Atlantic

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On a sunlit day in mid-December, humid and ripe as South India winters tend to be, six Carmelite nuns invited the transgender activist Vijayaraja Mallika over for tea. They sat inside the Provincial House of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (

Post South Africa

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IT IS INDEED breathtaking to note and experience this wonderful work of His Majesty, King Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, and the Sivananda World Peace Foundation to promote peace, working together and instilling the spirit of charity in the hearts of the pe

NPR

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A Roman Catholic nun says a bishop raped her multiple times between 2014 and 2016. The bishop denies wrongdoing and is out on bail. Some Indian Catholics are blaming the nun for tarnishing the church.

Futurity

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Muslim and Protestant scientists are more likely than other US scientists to experience religious discrimination, according to a new study. The study also shows that for some scientists, religious identity may fuel perceptions of discrimination. The

The Christian Science Monitor

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And in Chiang Rai, Thailand, the cave where 12 boys were famously rescued this summer has become a busy tourist destination.

NPR

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The companion piece to this year's Met Gala, Heavenly Bodies functions beautifully as an art object — but it has some odd blank spots, particularly around the contributions of women to Catholicism.

Futurity

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Historical records could help us move toward more constructively addressing slavery’s legacy in the United States, says journalist Rachel L. Swarns. “Growing up in Staten Island, New York, I lived just a few blocks away from a convent that ran a book

The Christian Science Monitor

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Letters to the editor for the August 2, 2021 weekly magazine. Readers discuss experiences with religion and local solutions to the outdoor divide.