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Before she entered the Community of St. John Baptist in 2012, Claudette Monica Powell performed in an acoustic rock duo and an improv comedy troupe in Los Angeles. Now she goes by Sister Monica Clare, ...
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MENDHAM, N.J. — On a Sunday night during Lent, a circle of Episcopal nuns sat in their lamp-lit library, chatting, knitting and gazing upon an unlikely altar: an orthopedic dog bed cradling their ...
A 16th-century Italian convent would seem to be an unlikely locus for a tale of political intrigue, thwarted romance and adolescent angst. But in Sarah Dunant’s “Sacred Hearts,” the convent of Santa ...
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