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 ...

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 ...

More than two years after a scandal erupted between a group of secluded Arlington nuns and a Catholic bishop, the Vatican ...

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 ...

Mary Dispenza came out of the closet more than 20 years ago. At the time, the former nun was directing pastoral nun services at the Seattle Archdiocese. Once Mary came out as gay, the church wouldn’t ...

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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.

The Church in Cuba offered a special Mass of thanksgiving for the 75 years of consecrated life of Sister María de Jesús Miranda, who has served the poor and sick as a member of the Congregation of the ...

The bishops who make up the official leadership of the U.S. Catholic Church have steadfastly opposed Democrats' health care plans on pro-life grounds, saying it will not sufficiently cut back on ...