From March 8–14, religious sisters are celebrated during the annual Catholic Sisters Week. Pope Leo XIV greets a woman religious during an audience with members of the Sisters of the Order of St.

Sister Anne Arabome with other women religious at the Sophia Institute for Theological Studies and Spiritual Formation in Namibia. (Credit: Sophia Institute for Theological Studies and Spiritual ...

Eight days before Christmas last year, Senseful Dkhar, a 55-year-old schoolteacher, led her fellow Catholics in prayer at a small village church in the northeastern corner of India, where the terrain ...

Joanna of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria and Queen Isabella I of Castile (Composite photo/ Wikimedia Commons) This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks ...

PALMYRA, Pa. — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three ...

A recent incident where a trainee nun has been accused of killing her newborn has not only shaken the Catholic Church in India but highlighted an "urgent need" to revise the way religious are formed, ...

The recent Pew Religious Landscape contains both good and bad news for women’s religious participation. The good news is that women are still more religious than men and have not suddenly left ...

I used to be Catholic, but I’m not anymore. Can you pray for me? These are not the sorts of things the average person hears from complete strangers, but for Catholic religious women wearing habits, it ...