women religious
Loyola’s Sister Jean captured hearts during March Madness. Now she’s written a book.
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 21, 2023
CHICAGO (RNS) — At 103, Chicago’s beloved Catholic sister, best known simply as ‘Sister Jean,’ has added publishing a memoir to her list of achievements.
Nuns & Nones helps millennials find surprise soulmates in Catholic sisters
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 11, 2019
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) — Nuns & Nones is a growing alliance connecting Catholic women religious, most of whom are over 60, with 20- and 30-something millennials, many of whom identify as religious 'nones.'
The highs, lows and distractions of the Vatican synod on young people
By Thomas Reese — October 12, 2018
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — It is hard for a synod to compete with a cardinal's resignation, a defense of the pope against his attacker and an invitation from North Korea's dictator.
I’m a millennial Catholic activist — that shouldn’t sound strange
By Jason L. Miller — March 16, 2018
(RNS) — At a time when statistically many millennials have left the church behind because they no longer feel welcomed, I reaffirmed my decision ... to stay Catholic and to work for a church that fully promotes justice.
How a group of California nuns challenged the Catholic Church
By Diane Winston — December 7, 2017
(The Conversation) — California in the 1960s was the epicenter for spiritual experimentation. And among those looking for personal and social transformation, the unlikeliest seekers may have been a small community of Roman Catholic religious: the Immaculate Heart Sisters.
The 11 sisters of Siervas are a rock band like ‘nun’ other
By Jerome Socolovsky — September 19, 2017
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Eleven nuns take the stage wearing traditional black-and-white habits but are anything but old school as they belt out songs to the ringing of electric guitar and a rock 'n' roll beat.
Chainsaw-wielding nun just ‘wanted to help out’ after Hurricane Irma
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 13, 2017
(RNS) — Sister Margaret Ann said the chainsaws were sitting in a school closet, and, after Hurricane Irma left a path of destruction through the city, 'they didn't belong there. They needed to be used.'
Catholic sisters provide medical care to Hindus at festival
By RNS staff — June 24, 2016
(Global Sisters Report) Sr. Alphy Thaikadan said she and other nuns experienced 'inter-religious dialogue at the grassroots' level while caring for an average of 250 patients a day at the dispensary during India's Kumbh Mela festival.
Illegal trade in body parts threatens Africans with albinism
By Melanie Lidman — February 11, 2016
MOSHI, Tanzania (RNS) There is a gruesome trade for body parts of people with albinism in some parts of Africa because of local superstitions that they possess magical properties and can make people rich.
Poet Wendell Berry bequeaths farming legacy to small Catholic college
By Judith Valente — February 5, 2016
(RNS) The 81-year-old writer decides against teaming up with a large university agricultural program, and instead selects a small Catholic liberal arts college run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the pope embraces nuns once under Vatican fire
By Lauren Markoe — September 24, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) “What would the church be without you?” the pope told the hundreds of nuns among the 3,000 worshippers in the cathedral's pews.
Vatican cardinal says he was sidelined in crackdown of US nuns
By Alessandro Speciale — May 6, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) When the Vatican's doctrinal office informed the office that oversees religious orders about a probe of American nuns, the cardinal who heads the office was told the investigation was already completed.
Archbishop who oversaw nuns probe transferred to Indianapolis
By Alessandro Speciale — October 18, 2012
VATICAN CITY (RNS) An American prelate who played a key role in trying to bridge the gap between Rome and U.S. nuns was transferred to Indianapolis only two years after taking up his Vatican post. By Alessandro Speciale.
Provocative art put Catholic nun in the middle of 1960s maelstrom
By David E. Anderson — July 11, 2012
(RNS) Combining images and words from advertising, pop culture and religion, the bold graphic art of Sister Mary Corita was as deeply representative of the spirit of the 1960s as it was ubiquitous in church basements, dorm rooms and urban communes of people involved in the struggle for civil rights and the campaign to end the Vietnam War. By David E. Anderson.
Vatican orders crackdown on American nuns
By David Gibson — April 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Vatican on Wednesday announced a crackdown on the organization representing most nuns and sisters in the U.S. following an investigation that said religious sisters weren't toeing the line on women's ordination, same-sex marriage and other issues. By David Gibson.
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