I read with interest Bryan A. Roberts’ Aug. 15 letter concerning nuns, obedience and renouncing vows, and agree in part with your two options for solving the dilemma of disillusion within an ...

After 26 years as a nun, Jesme Raphael gave up her robes and walked out of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, the Catholic order in Kerala, India, that had been her home for three decades. Two ...

A trio of octogenarian nuns — who have their own Instagram account with over 78,000 followers — recently made headlines in ...

An abbey in rural Missouri has become the site of pilgrimage for many Catholics who view the body of a Benedictine nun as a modern American miracle. Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster died in May 2019, but ...

After the liberation of the Mykolaiv district in Ukraine from the Russian army last week, residents began to return to their homes with the hope of saving at least some of their possessions. Together ...

The Vatican thinks that nuns are wasting their time on human rights and social work — you know, typical helpful nun stuff. Instead, the Catholic Church wants America’s nuns to spend more time doing ...

The founder of Carmelite congregation was beatified on Nov. 8 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom at Vallarpadam, Kerala ...

A nun is consoled during a Sept. 13, 2018, protest in Cochin, India. The protest was to demand justice after a former religious superior accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of raping her.

Two nuns, who were reportedly best friends, were also allegedly partners in crime. Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, who was principal of St. James Catholic School in Torrance, Calif., for nearly 28 years ...

After more than a year of feuding between Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson and Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Order of Discalced Carmelite in Arlington, Texas, over allegations she ...