When a young girl named Teresa Elizabeth Falke entered a Kansas convent 70 years ago, she was the oldest of eight children in a Catholic farm family in Westphalia, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of ...

Sister Rose Pacatte from the Daughters of St. Paul has been a nun for nearly 60 years and currently lives in Rome. Related: Republican Voters Are Finally Tearing Into Trump Over One Issue, But It's ...

Two Catholic nuns who were arrested at a train station in central India have been released on bail after spending more than 10 days in prison. “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ...

Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral after dropping an impromptu beatbox and dance session during a Catholic television program. Sisters Marizele Cassiano and Marisa de Paula, members of the “Copiosa ...

I was 7 when I first watched "The Sound of Music," and it left me with the impression that a nun's vocation involved sabotaging Nazi vehicles and belting out show tunes. For a few months afterward, I ...

Among the women Williams interviewed extensively was Patricia Grey, who was a nun in the Sisters of Mercy and a founder of the NBSC before leaving religious life in 1974. Grey shared with The ...

An Irish nun appointed by Pope Leo as a top Vatican adviser has expressed her delight that the American pontiff is “strengthening” Pope Francis’s inclusion of women.

Church kicks nun out after authorizing an emergency abortion to save the mother. June 1, 2010— -- Sister Margaret McBride was forced to make a decision between her faith and a woman's life last ...