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Nuns facing a grim retirement

The Catholic women who spend their lives in religious service ministering to others are increasingly at risk of spending their final days in a grim retirement, cared for by strangers in a public nursing home away from their fellow sisters.

"The religious women have for a long time been sorely neglected in our church," said Fr. Brian Jordan, from St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street....

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