Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ...

In 1947, St. Louis-born Marilyn Morheuser entered the Roman Catholic Sisters of Loretto. After 16 years as a nun, she left the order to become a civil rights worker in Milwaukee. “I was happy ...

Gossip kills, gossip poisons. Please, no gossiping among you, none. And to ask this of a woman is heroic but, come on, let’s ...

A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope ...

T he Carmelite nuns represent a significant and unique branch of the Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to a cloistered life of prayer and contemplation. This contemplative order has a rich history ...

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries, I jumped at the chance. In Puebla, Mexico, where I grew up, some Catholic churches are ...

It’s been a big week for the papacy. From Pope Francis' sassy selection of a new Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (a frequent critic of president-elect Donald Trump) to Nikki Glaser’s star-turn singing ...

(AINA) -- A video of Assyrian nuns at a hockey game in Detroit has gone viral. Detroit is home to nearly 100,000 Assyrians, most of whom are Roman Catholic (Chaldeans).

The two Catholic nuns, who were abducted last Tuesday in Anambra state, have regained freedom. The Catholic nuns identified ...

J oanne Pierce Misko, one of the first women sworn into the FBI as a special agent, who was also a Roman Catholic nun, has died at 83. Misko died in a hospital in Wheatfield, New York, from a lung ...