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November 2013

November 09, 2013

Vatican says more than 2,600 religious leave their orders every year

Details: According to figures compiled by the Vatican, more than 2,600 priests and consecrated female...

November 08, 2013

Redemption: Sister Mary Sean’s remarkable ministry to ex-convicts

Photo: Tony Avelar/Christian Science Monitor From the Christian Science Monitor: In the soft light...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Inspiring: 22-year-old cancer survivor joins the convent

A beautifully rendered story of survival and faith, from CNS and videographer Tyler Orsburn. Take...

October 02, 2013

To life: meet the sisters who minister on death row

Sister Camille D’Arienzo. Photo by Uli Seit for The New York Times Jim Dwyer in...

September 2013

September 01, 2013

Nuns disappearing from the Catholic school system

It's a phenomenon that's been developing for a while. Now, the Norfolk Daily News in...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Family affair: the five sisters who became Sisters

An amazing saga, from the Louisville Record: Sister Mary Emily Burks, a Louisville native who died...

August 13, 2013

Family affair: the five sisters who became Sisters

An amazing saga, from the Louisville Record: Sister Mary Emily Burks, a Louisville native who died...

August 03, 2013

Meet a nun with a black belt—and it’s not a rosary

Photo: by Desmond Lim I'm glad we didn't have nuns like this when I was...

August 03, 2013

Meet a nun with a black belt—and it’s not a rosary

Photo: by Desmond Lim I’m glad we didn’t have nuns like this when I was...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

“Mend a Quarrel:” A Message of Mercy We Need to Hear

Over at the CNEWA blog, (where I toil as part of my day job) there's...

July 20, 2013

Missouri Monastery to Become a Home for Expectant Mothers

Details: A former monastery for Catholic nuns is preparing for new life. It will now...

July 16, 2013

Catholic Nun Gang Raped in India: “This Wasn’t a Random Act of Barbarism”

Details: "I condemn this gang rape of this young nun in the strongest possible terms. This...

July 14, 2013

“The Most Compelling Modern Story of Faith That I Know Of…”

A great story of a group of sisters setting out to build a Catholic community...

July 06, 2013

Pope Francis: “It hurts my heart when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model of car”

That and much more, from his impromptu remarks today to seminarians and novices: Pope Francis...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Sister, Get Your Gun

These pictures were accompanied by the headline, "Mother's First Deer." They come from this site...

June 25, 2013

A Deacon Writes of His Own Conversion: “What a Difference a Habit Can Make”

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has invited Deacon Richard Ballard as a guest blogger this week over...

May 2013

May 08, 2013

Pope Francis to nuns: “Be a mother, not an old maid”

From CNS: Pope Francis told 800 superiors of women's orders from around the world that...

May 01, 2013

The Trappist nuns of Syria: “Christian hope…is stronger than all the horrors”

Eight years ago, a small group of Trappist nuns founded a monastery in Syria, in...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

Nuns launch radio show in Texas

They aren't exactly flying nuns, but they're definitely on the air. Details: Yesterday we spent...

April 15, 2013

Vatican statement on LCWR: “Pope Francis reaffirmed the program of reform”

From the Vatican website: Today the Superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the...

April 06, 2013

Miami officials try to shut down Mother Teresa soup kitchen

From the Miami Herald: Thirty-three years ago, Mother Teresa of Calcutta came to Miami to...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

Sister act: nun charged with voter fraud

It happened during the presidential election last fall: An Ohio nun was charged with voter...

March 09, 2013

Are women already running the Church?

An interesting perspective from writer Ashley McGuire in the Washington Post: With the Catholic Church...

March 08, 2013

Dominican sisters to be featured on American Bible Challenge TV show

They were stars on Oprah, and now they're headed to another hit TV show: TEAM...

March 07, 2013

Just what we’ve been waiting for: nuns doing the “Harlem Shake”!

Courtesy Sister Rose. Check it out below.

March 05, 2013

Meet “the most powerful woman in Rome”

Details: If the leadership of American nuns is the vanguard of a progressive spirit up...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Amazing: five sisters who were Sisters—and two of them died just a day apart

From the Albany Times Union: They were Sister sisters who possessed contrasting personalities and were...

January 08, 2013

Nun speaks out in support of same-sex marriage in Illinois

Really? Yes. Read on: Sister Donna Quinn, a Chicago native who has been a Catholic...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Report: Obamacare could drive religious order out of the U.S.

Details, from the Daily Caller: A religious order of nuns is concerned about its future...

December 03, 2012

AUDIO: “Love Cannot Be Silenced”

Sunday, I posted the story of the nun who has composed a kind of anthem...