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Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral after dropping an impromptu beatbox and dance session during a Catholic television program. Sisters Marizele Cassiano and Marisa de Paula, members of the ...
Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?
People have interesting ideas about the way nuns live,” the 59-year-old Sister Superior at the Community of St. John Baptist in Mendham, New Jersey, told The Post.
MANILA, Philippines — They wore habits before the tiara ... The last pope from a religious order before Francis. Reactionary and anti-modern, he condemned railways as “roads to hell ...
But beyond what we all know, let us look into how a simple act of washing hands went from medieval neglect to an essential practice in modern medicine and lifestyle ... used water symbolically before ...
Laura is wearing a white scapular and habit, traditional nun’s garments ... which seems so out of step with the modern world? I sought out nuns with degrees, dating histories, now-dormant ...
At “Teach us to be at peace with what we have,” Jennie sighed and repositioned herself on the plush gray cot, the rare modern ... one nun wore a hoodie over her habit; another wore Crocs.
But even if cigarettes are fading out of the picture, that doesn’t mean everyone has dropped their habits altogether ... If anything, it’s refreshing. The modern social life of Sarasota ...
Living a communal life with other nuns, forgoing marriage and children of her own, making vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to God go against modern ... the traditional habit, not only ...
Laura is wearing a white scapular and habit, traditional nun’s garments ... which seems so out of step with the modern world? I sought out nuns with degrees, dating histories, now-dormant ...
Our habits are creating what Atalay has called ... the philosopher and writer Andrew Taggart observed in an essay published in the religious journal First Things that a new flavor of masculinity ...
The modern deaconess ... between Anglican and Catholic nuns except that they are under the Pope and we are not.” Most Lutheran deaconesses, even those who wear habits, are quick to emphasize ...