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 ...

Any good Catholic—or Catholic survivor—can tell you how much their lives were shaped by nuns. What may surprise the rest of us is how society as we know it today has been molded, radicalized, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dismissal caps a bitter and divisive feud between the Carmelite nuns and Church authorities ranging from Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson to the Vatican itself. The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa ...

A nun — who was part of a #churchtoo social media campaign — claims a priest at a Long Island monastery sexually harassed her and another nun and the sisters were cast out for blowing the whistle, ...

Pope Francis urged a group of nuns with “vinegar faces” to steer clear of gossiping and not to speak with “the Devil” in an off-the-cuff rant. His Holiness, 88, spoke with sisters from the Union of St ...