Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of ...

Pope Francis has appointed Consolata Missionary Sister Simona Brambilla to be the first woman to lead a Vatican dicastery, ...

Pope Francis has named a nun to head a prominent office at the Vatican, the first time a woman has held that position and the ...

VATICAN— Pope Francis has named for the first time a woman, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia, ...

In our shared human struggles, we ordinary men and women created something extraordinary: a cathedral of flesh. With La Horde—our informal fellowship of axe carpenters—I remember a day ...

Friends and community members remember Sister Veronica Higgins, who died in a recent car accident in Canadian County.

The 12th Day of Christmas, Epiphany, has special significance in Ireland. It is known as “Little Christmas” — Nollaig Beag — ...

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1 percent of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has ...

A woman known as the 'fastest nun in the West,' who served areas of Santa Fe and Albuquerque in the late 1800's, is one step closer to becoming a saint in the Catholic Church.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton founded the first congregation of women religious in the US and the first US Catholic girls’ school ...

The ISIS flag-flying terrorist killed at least 15 people and injured dozens of others, including a student from the ...

The war is not over, and the Kurds remain under threat in the East. The next issue will be whether this vast, beautiful country is partitioned. Christians, despite their small parishes ...