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Many require post-surgical care. It is an unfamiliar mission area for the nuns of Kerala's first indigenous congregation for women, founded as a cloistered community. Mother of Carmel Sr.

Having abnormally small pupils may indicate a health problem. The pupil, the dark center of the eye, determines how much light reaches the light-sensing retina at the back of the eye. Muscles in the ...

Since 2025 is a Holy Year for the Catholic Church, with 32 million pilgrims projected to visit Rome, related calls make up a large part of the 50-70 queries the nuns answer daily. But then there ...

And her new sisters. It’s February 2022 and Laura, at 29 years old, is becoming a nun. "Symbolic, right? Destiny!" Laura says to me over Zoom, laughing about that day almost three years ago ...

Partners in the “Five Eyes” spy alliance, made up of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, may soon have to rethink their reliance on Washington, their most powerful member.

I beat Rome’s spiralling hotel rates by staying with nuns for £50 a night It’s the Jubilee Year in the Italian capital, so all accommodation is booked up and expensive, right? Not with some ...

He has threatened both to annex Canada and to eject it from the Five Eyes spy pact. For now, intelligence continues to flow, freely, between America and its allies. Might that change? Some fear ...

Can you give him my get-well wishes? Can I speak with him directly? The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with questions like that as the pope ...

Can you give him my get-well wishes? Can I speak with him directly? The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with questions like that as the pope remains ...

FILE - Pope Francis shares a light moment with "Telefono Amico" support hotline president Dario Briccola during an audience at the Vatican Saturday, March 11, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool ...