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Mother Mary Paschal of the Lamb of God thumb-wrestles with her nephew, James Donahue, in 2011. The Catonsville, Maryland, native was elected abbess of the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Alabama on July 29. (CNS/Catholic Review/Courtesy of Amy Donahue, Facebook)