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10 Episcopal nuns in Archdiocese of Baltimore to join Catholic Church

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Kendall Harmon

After seven years of prayer and discernment, a community of Episcopal nuns and their chaplain will be received into the Roman Catholic Church during a Sept. 3 Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien.

The archbishop will welcome 10 sisters from the Society of All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor when he administers the sacrament of confirmation and the sisters renew their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the chapel of their Catonsville convent.

Episcopal Father Warren Tanghe will also be received into the church and is discerning the possibility of becoming a Catholic priest.

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3 comments on “10 Episcopal nuns in Archdiocese of Baltimore to join Catholic Church”

  1. Don R says:
    August 29, 2009 at 1:54 am

    This seems salient:
    [blockquote]“We kept thinking we could help by being a witness for orthodoxy,” said Sister Mary Joan Walker, the community’s archivist.

    Mother Christina said that effort “was not as helpful as we had hoped it would be.”[/blockquote]
    It must be bittersweet finally to leave.

  2. stevejax says:
    August 29, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Nuns on the run??

  3. Laura R. says:
    August 30, 2009 at 1:52 am

    Rome gets the All Saints Sisters, TEC gets Fr. Cutie.