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‘Still shaken’: Caretaker of suppressed Philadelphia Carmel says nuns aligned with Rome had locks changed

The day before Thanksgiving two nuns, a lawyer, and a locksmith showed up at the monastery and had the locks changed so that the caretaker could not enter the chapel and the remaining monastery anymore.

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Maike Hickson

• Dec 8, 2022Dec 8, 2022

‘They are profiting from the closure of the monastery’: Rome suppresses Carmel in Philadelphia

Sources say Rome and the local archdiocese did all they could to discourage a revival of the monastery – and that they are the ones who will receive the monastery's estimated assets of approximately $10 million.

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Maike Hickson

• Oct 28, 2022Oct 28, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Vatican fires faithful Carmelite chaplain, orders cloistered nuns to make changes

The Fairfield Carmelites ‘were basically being told that if they want to follow St. Teresa of Ávila, with the constitutions that she wrote … that they are basically not true children of the Church,’ said Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean.

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Nick Marmalejo

• Apr 12, 2022Apr 12, 2022

Vatican source: Pope to attack Ecclesia Dei communities in February

This development must be seen in light of the attempts by Rome to steer the traditional contemplative orders, such as the Carmelite nuns in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, away from their original and stricter charisms.

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Maike Hickson

• Dec 3, 2021Dec 9, 2021

Traditional nuns in Pennsylvania will ‘stand up and fight’ Vatican’s attack on contemplative life

'These holy women need the fierce protection and ongoing support of Catholic laity in the face of a coordinated onslaught by this papacy to undermine, secularize, and monetize this cloistered order.'

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Maike Hickson

• Nov 23, 2021Nov 23, 2021

Traditional Carmelites in Pennsylvania announce apostolic visitation

The traditional Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate had undergone a visitation early on in Pope Francis’ papacy — with very negative effects on the order.

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Maike Hickson

• Sep 23, 2021Sep 24, 2021

Nuns reimagine ‘Invictus’ poem into Catholic song for our troubled times

'You are the Master of my fate / You are the Captain of my soul'

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Danielle Zuccaro

• Sep 1, 2020Apr 22, 2024

Latin Mass, Church traditions bring boom in vocations for US order of nuns

'Young women are drawn to beauty in the liturgy,' Mother Stella-Marie of Jesus told LifeSiteNews in a rare interview.

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Drew Belsky

• Aug 13, 2019Apr 22, 2024

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‘Still shaken’: Caretaker of suppressed Philadelphia Carmel says nuns aligned with Rome had locks changed

‘They are profiting from the closure of the monastery’: Rome suppresses Carmel in Philadelphia

EXCLUSIVE: Vatican fires faithful Carmelite chaplain, orders cloistered nuns to make changes

Vatican source: Pope to attack Ecclesia Dei communities in February

Traditional nuns in Pennsylvania will ‘stand up and fight’ Vatican’s attack on contemplative life

Traditional Carmelites in Pennsylvania announce apostolic visitation

Nuns reimagine ‘Invictus’ poem into Catholic song for our troubled times

Latin Mass, Church traditions bring boom in vocations for US order of nuns