Many of the hundreds of children kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria were as young as 5 years old, according to a nun who also described how 50 of the students escaped over the weekend. Mary ...

Several “singing nuns” got famous back in the day, but the one-hit wonder “Dominique” from 1963 was made famous by a specific singing nun named Jeanne-Paule Marie “Jeannine” Deckers. Deckers’ cover of ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. St. Mary’s Health Care System and The Classic Center Authority announced Monday a ...

Sister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, PCPA, died on Nov. 10 after roughly three-quarters of a century of religious life. She was 94. Sister Mary Michael was the last of the original ...

Sister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, of the of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, died on Nov. 10 after roughly three-quarters of a century of religious life. She was 94. Sister ...

And now we turn from New York to Austria for Part 2 of our report on three octogenarian nuns. They recently broke into their former convent after running away from a nursing home. In yesterday's ...

On the first anniversary of Dominique Ford's death, his loved ones gathered on Saturday for a vigil. Ford was shot and killed in his apartment in Fulton on Oct. 25, 2024. One year after his murder, ...

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My childhood best friend was a boy named Sam. We met when we were 9 and discovered we had compatible imaginations that didn’t seem to match those of our peers. We’d make up games. The rules were not ...

She was 48 years old, overweight and addicted to cigarettes. When Sister Marion Irvine, a Dominican nun and school principal in San Rafael, Calif., decided to try jogging on Memorial Day in 1978, she ...

Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Thursday 25th September 2025. The hills are alive with the sound of music and the Arts Theatre is alive with The Sound of Music, in this most enjoyable production from the ...

Three octogenarian nuns have defied their diocese, run away from their nursing home and returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, which they are now occupying. On September 4, Sister ...