A religious sister who befriended Billy the Kid, calmed a lynch mob and testified against human trafficking is one step ...

The move marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in the church, while standing firm on ...

In a groundbreaking decision, Pope Francis has appointed the Italian missionary nun, Simona Brambilla, M.C., as prefect of ...

An Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, will become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church’s ...

Vilunya Diskin has lived in Greater Boston since the '60s, and in her 20s, she was a member of a local 13-member collective ...

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 ...

Is there an approach to forgiveness that honors human agency, requires neither apologies nor reconciliation, needn't be ...

Across the globe, conservative political parties are attracting greater number of young men than ever before but are losing among young and unmarried women. For those who view progressive ideologies ...

The late Amada Cardenas was called many things — the “angel of peyote,” the “peyote rose” or simply “Grandma Amada.” The ...

Just this year Pope Francis urged orders to pray harder for more priests and nuns as he acknowledged the number of men and women entering Catholic religious life continues to plummet in parts of ...

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