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Declining number of U.S. nuns, even among traditional orders, charted in new study

By David Gibson — October 13, 2014
(RNS) The more liberal, socially active communities of sisters are drawing about the same number of new entrants as the more conservative, tradition-minded communities: very few.

Vatican’s doctrinal chief renews criticism of US nuns, says he’s no misogynist

By David Gibson — September 2, 2014
(RNS) " ... We don’t want to gobble up a woman a day!” Cardinal Gerhard Mueller told L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper, in the edition published on Monday (Sept. 1).

Old-fashioned nuns say the past is key to the future

By David Gibson — August 22, 2012

(RNS) The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious comprises convents with a total of about 10,000 nuns, and you probably won't be reading about any Vatican investigation of their practices. By David Gibson.

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