Maryanne Braverman joined a New York-based convent just after graduating high school, at age 17. She was a nun for 10 years and committed for life by taking her final vows. Eventually, however, she ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

Sister Carla Venditti of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus lives in Avezzano, Italy, and is known as the ...

Sister Norma Nunez, with the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy, has served at Metanoia for 10 years. “My vocation is to love the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For 98-year-old Sister Angela Rooney, it was one of the most jarring moves of her life. She always thought she would live out her days as she had for decades, in a convent under the ...

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 ...

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from the glimpses behind the doors of the uber-secretive papal conclave itself ...

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 ...