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Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 2020, in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

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Pope pays tribute to women religious caring for the sick

Cindy Wooden|Mar 25, 2020|2 Min Read

Sister Cabrini Delaney consults with a member of the dietary staff at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace's Englewood Cliff, N.J., facility, in this October 2016 photo. Care for retired religious takes special emphasis amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/courtesy Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace)

Care for retired religious takes special emphasis amid pandemic

Carol Zimmermann|Mar 17, 2020|5 Min Read

Capuchin Franciscan Sister Maria Elena Romero, in this undated photo at the Veronica Giuliani Monastery in Wilmington, Del., entered the life of a cloistered nun in 1983 when she joined the order of St. Clare. Though many are struggling with limiting contact with others as the world deals with COVID-19, this can be a time for spiritual opportunity, she said. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

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In the time of COVID-19, the cloistered life offers lessons for the world

Rhina Guidos|Mar 17, 2020|5 Min Read

California State Capitol. (Willem van Bergen/CC via CNA)

How California's abortion mandate trampled on Catholic nuns

Kevin Jones|Feb 19, 2020|5 Min Read

Tommy Dunphy, 37, used to live on Los Angeles' Skid Row but now leases a low-rent, government-subsidized apartment in the Gateway apartment complex in Skid Row, where he lives with his dog, Arianna. As many as 60,000 people may be living on the streets at night in Los Angeles. (CNS photo/Chris Herlinger, courtesy Global Sister Report)

Women religious worldwide work to address affordable housing, homelessness

Catholic News Service|Feb 12, 2020|6 Min Read

Sister Rashmi Mattappally plays with a child while taking his weight at a local dispensary in Loiborsiret, Tanzania. (CNS photo/Doreen Ajiambo, Global Sisters Report)

Sisters encourage Masai mothers to turn to medically assisted deliveries

Catholic News Service|Feb 11, 2020|6 Min Read

Women religious attend Mass marking the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 2, 2017, file photo. Loreto Sister Patricia Murray, executive secretary of the women's International Union of Superiors General, said congregations of women religious are growing closer in the face of declining overall numbers. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Faith

Not by numbers: Women religious finding new ways to minister, collaborate

Cindy Wooden|Jan 30, 2020|5 Min Read

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Can a dorm for single moms and retired nuns bring new life to this Catholic college?

Perry West|Jan 29, 2020|5 Min Read

Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, is pictured in a 2014 photo. In an interview for the February edition of "Chiesa Donna Mondo," the Vatican newspaper's monthly women's magazine, the cardinal said sexual abuse and the abuse of authority have occurred and are occurring within religious orders of women and must be addressed with transparency and boldness. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Abuse happens within women's orders, too, cardinal says

Cindy Wooden|Jan 24, 2020|3 Min Read

Sister Dede Byrne at Catholic Chartie’s Medical Clinic in Washington, D.C., where she volunteers as a surgeon. The clinic provides free or low-cost medical care to uninsured and underinsured low-income families. (Catholic Standard/Jaclyn Lippelman)

Meet the 'nun with the gun' honored at the 2019 White Mass

R.W. Dellinger|Oct 15, 2019|6 Min Read

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