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NEWS ABOUT: nuns

nuns stories: 14 news summaries
OPINION

 US Nuns Dodge 
 Specter of Sex Abuse 


Aug 17, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last week the largest group of American nuns held its annual meeting, and once again they refused to let survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic schools attend. When even the bishops have acknowledged the depth and seriousness of abuse within the Church, it's strange for the nuns to bury their... More »

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Catholic Church • sexual abuse • nuns • abuse • clergy abuse scandal • Catholic

(Newser) - Italian police pulled over a Ford Fiesta doing 112mph and found it full of nuns desperate to see the Pope, the Guardian reports. "The police were shocked to find three nuns of a certain age in the Fiesta," says the driver, who wanted to help the Pope recover... More »

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Vatican Steps Up Scrutiny
of American Nuns

Nuns fear church heirarchy is seeking to return them to strictly traditional ways

Jul 2, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican has launched two major probes into the lives of America's 60,000 nuns, the New York Times reports. Many nuns have stopped wearing habits, moved out of convents, and found work in academia or political advocacy in the last few decades, and some fear the investigations are part... More »

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'Defiant' Nun Arrested After Cop Showdown

Sister got between police officer and man with an ice pick

Jun 5, 09 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Miami nun has been arrested after getting in the middle of a confrontation between a police officer and a homeless man wielding an ice pick, WPLG 10 reports. The man had been causing a disturbance outside the shelter where Sister Margaret Anthony works, and when police tried to defuse... More »

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Former Tennis Prodigy Finds Purpose as Nun

Andrea Jaeger helps child athletes, cancer, and abuse victims

May 26, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world met her as a plucky 14-year-old tennis phenom with pigtails, a bratty star who fought her way to No. 2 in the world rankings. But that early success came with a heavy pricetag, and Andrea Jaeger has found her place as an Anglican Dominican nun, the Washington ... More »

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Christianity • tennis • nuns • women's tennis • Andrea Jaeger

Saucy Brits in Nun Garb Freed From Greek Jail

Charges against 'naughty nun' stag party dropped 

May 26, 09 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Greek court has freed 17 British men arrested while carousing dressed in nun's habits with lacy lingerie beneath, the BBC reports. Charges of offensive behavior were dropped against the men—who spent a night in jail and appeared in court still in costume—after no one showed up to... More »

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nuns • Greece • tourists • costume

Don't Blame Nuns for Your Bad Sex Life:
Catholic Honcho

Cosmo editor struggles 'to undo damage'

Apr 26, 09 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Are Catholic nuns responsible for repressed and sexually frustrated American women? That's absolute nunsense, fumes a conservative Catholic leader after a former sex-columnist-turned-deputy-editor at Cosmo blamed uptight teaching by nuns for women's sexual hangups. "It's not easy to undo damage caused by years of exposure to Catholic-school nuns,"... More »

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Catholic Church • sex • nuns • sex education • Catholic • repression • Roman Catholic Church • Catholic Action League • Cosmopolitan • Willam Donahue

Brazilian Busted in Murder of US Nun Nabbed on Slavery Charges

Dorothy Stang's slaying was subject of movie

Dec 31, 08 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A Brazilian rancher facing charges in the death of a 73-year-old American nun has been arrested again for fraud and slavery in the same Amazon region where the nun was shot three years ago, reports CNN. Evidence supporting the latest charges will be used at his murder trial. Four others... More »

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property rights • Brazil • murder • nuns • slavery • jungle • Amazon rainforest • Amazon • Dorothy Stang

Pressured Priest: We'll Have Nun
of Catwalks

'Miss Sister' beauty contest canceled

Aug 27, 08 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Italian priest's plans for a nun beauty pageant have been nixed by his higher-ups, the BBC reports. Father Antonio Rungi, who said the idea was to highlight the inner beauty of nuns and smash stereotypes of the sisters as old and dour, decided to draw a veil over the... More »

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 Italian Priest Plans Nun Pageant

Online contest pits sisters against each other for 'Miss Sister 2008'

Aug 25, 08 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Italian priest and theologian is out to show the fun side of the sisterhood with “Miss Sister 2008,” an online beauty pageant for nuns. The Rev. Antonio Rungi hopes the contest, which he’ll begin on his blog next month, will fight the stereotype that nuns are... More »

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 Beloved French Nun Reveals All 

Her upcoming memoir details wild 1920s exploits

Aug 16, 08 7:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beloved French nun Soeur Emmanuelle is set to release a memoir revealing her wild adventures as a flapper in the 1920s. She loved dressing up and dancing the night away, she says, but gave it up to be a nun in 1929. When she later fell in love with an... More »

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Ind. Nuns
Don't Have a Prayer at Polls

South Bend sisters
run afoul of strict voter-ID laws

May 7, 08 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A dozen nuns who lacked proper photo ID were turned away from an Indiana voting booth yesterday—by a fellow nun. None of the nuns, all over 80, had a driver's license because they don't drive, and some presented outdated passports, the AP reports. Their convent has launched a major... More »

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Indiana • nuns • voting • voting rights • photo ID • Indiana primary

'Conscientious' Folks Face Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

Dependability appears to reduce threat: study

Oct 2, 07 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Conscientious" people appear to be less likely to get Alzheimer's, researchers have found. Participants whose personality tests pegged them as extremely self-disciplined, goal-oriented and dependable were 89% less likely to get Alzheimer's than those at the opposite end of the diligence spectrum, according to a new study in the... More »

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dementia • nuns • medical research • priest • Catholic • Alzheimer's Disease

Nuns' Home Will Fund Priest Sex Abuse Payment

LA archdiocese, facing $660M settlement, issues eviction notice

Sep 7, 07 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The LA Archdiocese has notified three nuns that their Santa Barbara convent will be sold to help pay the $660 million settlement with victims of sexual abuse by priests. They received only a letter requesting they vacate by year's end, the Los Angeles Times reports. “We're not even worth... More »

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Los Angeles • sexual abuse • nuns • priest • archdiocese • Santa Barbara • settlement • eviction

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