Its first embodiments were, in 1879, the exclusion of the priests from the administrative committees of hospitals and of boards of charity; in 1880, certain measures directed against the religious congregations; from 1880 to 1890, the substitution of lay women for nuns in many hospitals; and, ...
IX. CISTERCIAN NUNS IN AMERICA —A Cistercian novice who came from Europe at the same time as the Trappists, and who was joined by seventeen American women, tried to establish a community. Circumstances prevented this. Father Vincent de Paul, at Tracadie, having asked the Congregation of Notre...
Because the community’s future was uncertain, shortly after ordination Fr. John accepted an offer from the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Lake Elmo to become their chaplain and spent five happy years serving as chaplain to the nuns and living a solitary life as a Carmelite hermit. In 1987, the...
The Irish child-victims have demanded an Encyclical Letter from Benedict-Ratzinger "to all people of Ireland, accepting fully the harm" that has been caused by his Newchurch bishops, presbyters, nuns, and brothers. The Irish child-victims have further demanded that he replace immediately any of...
their bishops in union with the pope of Rome. The second was the establishment of many houses of prayer which took the form of Benedictine monasteries. A great number of Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns followed him to the continent. He introduced Benedictine nuns to the active apostolate of ...
Napoleon attempted to make Fesch accept the See of Paris, while the latter wished to retain that of Lyons. Cardinal Maury (1746-1817), formerly a royalist deputy to the Constitutional Assembly, also ambassador to the Holy See from the Count of Provence, but who went over to the Empire in...