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At the start of the 2022-2023 school year, 40 college students move in with the 40 Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at the Our Lady of Angels Convent in Aston, Pennsylvania. 

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A marker erected by the Minnesota Historical Society marks the site of the dormitory of the former Morris Industrial School for Indians. (Courtesy of Elizabethada Wright)

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Given the evolutionary spirit and events everywhere, religious life for the digital era needs reenvisioning, switching gears from doing works of charity to working for systemic change.

Neumann University students and four Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia practice a TikTok video

Neumann University needed housing. A local convent had space. Now, nuns and students share a 'dorm'

At the start of the 2022-2023 school year, 40 college students move in with the 40 Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at the Our Lady of Angels Convent in Aston, Pennsylvania. 

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The need for candles has taken on urgency with increased electrical blackouts in Ukraine after a recent torrent of Russian bombardments strained the country's power grid. These candles, brought from Poland, were distributed to residents of Zhovkva, Ukraine, at a Dominican convent. (GSR photo/Chris Herlinger)

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St. Joseph's Anglo-Indian School band performs at Kalolsavam, India's largest school cultural festival, in Kozhikode, Kerala. The team, prepared by Apostolic Carmel Sr. Maria Gracia, won an A grade in the competition. (Courtesy of Maria Gracia)

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Sr. Maria Fe Rollo, standing in back, with her numerancy and literacy class in March 2018 at San Isidro Care Centre (Courtesy of Maria Fe Rollo)

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves after celebrating vespers with members of religious orders in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Feb. 2, 2011, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day for Consecrated Life. (CNS/Paul Haring)

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