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Byline: Julie Robinson
Jan. 11--Sister Molly Maloney's life is not exactly cloistered. The Catholic nun meets with people seeking spiritual guidance, sends e-mails and addresses entire congregations with ease. Candles flicker in her office at the West Virginia Institute of Spirituality, located in an older home on the corner of Virginia and Elizabeth Streets.
Her eyes shine as she describes her work with single moms, pastoral leaders and others searching for a more contemplative life. She came back to her Charleston hometown four years ago after her studies and ministries led her all over the country for the previous 22 years.
"I've come full circle," she said. "Now I'm back home again." Maloney, 56, can look out her East End apartment window and see the site of the Kanawha Valley Hospital in which she was born, Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral where she was baptized and the parochial schools she…