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Five Catholic women who dream of ordination as deacons
The Vatican decided to restore the ancient practice of permanent deacons after the Second Vatican Council in 1967 but ...
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Silence of the Nuns — Oscar Darling ‘Conclave’ Contains Subtle Indictment of Catholic Church’s Views on Women
There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from ...
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Catholic bishops praise Trump’s executive order barring men from women’s sports
Two committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) expressed their approval of President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans biological men from competing in women ...
National Catholic Register1d
From Zen Monk to Catholic: A British Soldier’s Remarkable Conversion Story
Raised without faith, Stephen Williams embraced Zen Buddhism before a surprising encounter led him to Catholicism and Opus ...
The New Yorker1d
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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Trump signs executive order keeping men out of women’s sports
the Denver Catholic Register, and CatholicVote, and she graduated from Hillsdale College. She lives in Colorado with her husband. Trump issued the order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology ...
Eurogamer5d
Wonder Woman game reportedly "still years away from release" - if it ever launches at all
Three years after its announcement, the future of Warner Bros.'s Wonder Woman game is reportedly in question - with its release said to still be "years away" if it ever launches at all.
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‘The Church is not dying’: Students attend SEEK 25 conference
The conference, organized by FOCUS Ministries Jan. 1-5, featured chaplains, religious and young adult men and women, Catholic speakers and artists. More than 17,000 college-age attendees participated ...
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In first ever, a woman religious to lead the Catholic Education Association
Founded in 1941 and with 1524 connected schools, CEAP is one of the most important institutions in the field of education, Catholic and otherwise. MANILA: For the first time in its history, a woman ...
UN Women3d
World Conferences on Women
The United Nations has organized four world conferences on women. These took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and Beijing in 1995. The last was followed by a series of ...
UN Women5d
ACT to End Violence against Women
Violence against women and girls is the most pervasive human rights violation worldwide. Nearly 30 years since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, and despite concerted efforts by UN ...