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 ...

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 ...