Servant of God Sister Blandina Segale, an Italian immigrant who ministered during the days of the Wild West, is close to ...

Sr Bosco's teaching career began in 1957 in Missouri, United States where one of her pupils was a boy who went on to become Cardinal of New York, Timothy Dolan. After 22 years she returned to Ireland ...

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 ...

More than 3,000 people have signed a petition urging the owners of a chapel-turned bar in a Maryland hotel to abstain from serving liquor from the former high altar.

They wanted normal lives - a family, owning a home. Then they chose to take religious vows. Two young nuns, a rarity in ...

Nuns with a priest on the steps of the León Cathedral in Nicaragua. (Photo by Adam Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0) Nicaragua's government issued an ultimatum to the country's remaining religious sisters ...

Does your congregation have any special or unusual Advent or Christmas customs? Are there any that are characteristic of your ...

About half of prospective nuns complete the long process to make final vows On average ... It forced the now 30-year-old ...

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

The Vatican no longer considers the nuns part of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson says their leader broke her chastity vow.

It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three and “took a leap ...