The Augustinian nuns of Lecceto are a small community living in a hermitage 10 kilometers (a little more than six miles) from the city of Siena in Italy. The hermitage bears witness to an ancient and ...

PRAIRIE DU SAC - A telephone call interrupted the silence the 15 nuns at Valley of Our Lady Monastery usually keep. The call came with a request: pray. It was Sept. 11, but the nuns had no details or ...

MIAMI – Six Haitian nuns and two companions were kidnapped at gunpoint Friday in the nation’s capital, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince confirmed to the Miami Herald. The nuns, members ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — Parkinson's — the same disease her beloved Pope John Paul II suffered — robbed Sister Marie Simon-Pierre of her ability to walk, drive or even write. Then, in one night of ...