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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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America’s changing pews: Who shows up at church on Sunday?
a sociologist who wrote a book about why single evangelical women leave the church. Among young women who do attend on Sundays, she says she’s interviewed those who say they like President-elect ...
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The Roles for Women
leaving their fiancees -- Does that create tension within the church, or does that create tension with society? The fact that some young women and men wanted, on the basis of hearing these ...
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Woman, 71, heading to New Year’s Day church service fights back when teen girls attack, try to rob her in NYC subway station
A plucky elderly woman on her way to a New Year’s Day church service fought back when a violent ... which didn’t discourage the young would-be robbers. “The first person kept fighting ...
The Mirror6d
Young woman killed in front of her friends when roof of UNESCO church suddenly caves in
A young woman was horrifically killed in front of her boyfriend after the roof of a famous church caved in and collapsed. Giulia Panchoni Righetto was with her partner and three friends yesterday ...
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St. Agatha, the early Church martyr who tradition says was visited by St. Peter
Every Feb. 5, the Church remembers St. Agatha of Catania, a young woman who consecrated her virginity to God and died a martyr’s death during the persecution of the Roman Emperor Decius in the ...