“The ideal bishop does not exist,” Sister Reungoat said. But he has to be a shepherd who is “close to the people entrusted to him, he has to know how to involve priests, laity and religious, and people of different generations.”
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Biden awards Sister Simone Campbell Presidential Medal of Freedom, noting her role in passing the Affordable Care Act
Sister Simone Campbell, a longtime advocate for economic justice and health care policy, and late labor leader Richard Trumka received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a White House ceremony.
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Joe Biden will award Sister Simone Campbell, of ‘Nuns on the Bus’ fame, the Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Joe Biden will award the nation’s highest civilian honor to a Catholic sister next week.
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50 years after a group of Catholic sisters formed Network, the activist group pledges to focus on racial justice
Network, known for its “Nuns on the Bus” campaign, is celebrating an anniversary. But it is not slowing down its efforts toward creating a racially, economically and socially just world.
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Pope Francis praises Sister Carol Keehan—a key player in Obamacare passing—at award ceremony
Carol Keehan, D.C., the former head of the Catholic Health Association who was credited with helping pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, was recognized with the Spirit of Francis Award from Catholic Extension.
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Religious orders launch initiative to care for nuns with dementia
A $5 million donation is going to help launch the Catholic Sisters Cognitive Impairment-Alzheimer’s Global Initiative, a project to help religious orders care for sisters with dementia.
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Pope Francis approved spending 1 million euros to free nun kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked militants
Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday.
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‘Subversive Habits’ tells the compelling and long-overlooked history of Black Catholic nuns
After 14 years of tenacious research, Shannen Dee Williams arguably now knows more about America’s Black nuns than anyone in the world.
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Pope Francis names a Jesuit and a nun to lead human development dicastery
Pope Francis formalized appointments to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and named new secretaries to the restructured Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Ukrainian nuns transform their monastery to welcome refugees
A quiet monastery in the western Ukrainian village of Hoshiv has transformed itself into a giant playground for a dozen children who’ve been displaced by the war with their families.