Religious life for women has a long tradition ... Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France’s St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans ...

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sister Tiziana Merletti, a canon ...

It’s a legacy that includes some progressive values. Like other religious orders, the Sisters of St. Louis has a charism (a motto or mission statement), “which is ‘unity,’” explains Harnett. “That ...

The Women Religious Archives Collaborative Heritage Center will document the history of an oft-ignored part of the church: ...

Sister Mary Barron, president of the umbrella group of leaders of women’s religious orders, urged the superiors and the over 650,000 nuns worldwide to pray that the cardinals make the right ...

As congregations across the United States look to liquidate unused facilities or find a new way to put them to use, ...

A pall hung over the gathering of the leadership of 14 religious orders of Charity Sisters in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last month. Among them were the New York Charities who, in April, decided to ...

The Sisters organization — which describes itself as “a leading-edge order of queer and trans ... passed out rosaries and held up flags with religious imagery, illustrations of Jesus Christ ...

The religious order of Catholic sisters is suing the Obama administration over a provision of the Affordable Care Act that the administration has interpreted as requiring the sisters to purchase ...

The steady stream of young women joining religious orders stopped decades ago. That means the sisters who remain have little income and fewer peers to lean on for care. Decades ago, the Holy ...

Lastovica was reading about the new order of sisters coming to Waco. He was struck by how similar the womens’ prison life was to religious life — living in cells, a structured day of work and ...