Posts Tagged ‘Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament of Cuernavaca’

Nuns fight off Vatican decree ordering removal of their Mother Superior

Monday, February 27th, 2023

Earlier this month, two Poor Clare nuns were expelled from religious life for defying a Vatican order to abandon their 13th-century convent on Italy’s Amalfi coast. Now 13 Benedictine sisters in Tuscany could face a similar fate as they too resist a Vatican decree, which involves the removal of their mother superior. The drama centres Read more

Trading beauty queen glam for nun’s habit

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

A 20-year old beauty queen from Mexico has traded her crown for the habit of the the Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament of Cuernavaca. “I was very happy with everything I had, but it does not compare with the happiness that God now places in my heart,” she says. Esmeralda Solís Gonzáles says Read more