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SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Former attorney professes first vows as cloistered Dominican nun

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SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Former attorney professes first vows as cloistered Dominican nun

July 29, 2019January 21, 2026

By Valerie Schmalz | Catholic News ServiceMENLO PARK, Calif. — Tara Clemens was an Anchorage, Alaska, attorney, and an evangelical Christian who joined the Catholic Church during her last months of law school.On May 28, she made first vows as Sister Marie Dominic of the Incarnate Word, a cloistered Dominican nun at Corpus Christi Monastery…...