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Poor Clares
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Poor Clares: see Clare, Saint Clare or Clara, Saint, 1193?–1253, Italian nun of Assisi, devoted from her youth to St. Francis , to whom she took a vow of poverty. She led a life of great austerity.
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I suspect more than a few American bishops, Catholic academics, professional liturgists, and ecclesiastical bureaucrats would enthusiastically participate in a similar game if this Poor Clare Nun of Perpetual Adoration were the iconic target.
In a few choice words, Raymond Arroyo nicely sums up the paradoxes of Mother Angelica: "the cloistered, contemplative nun who speaks to the world, the independent rule breaker who is derided as a 'rigid conservative;' the wisecracking comedian who suffers near constant pain; the Poor Clare nun who runs a multi-million dollar corporation".
As I grieved, I often visited the Poor Clare Convent in Arundel, England, where I was then living.
 
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