They abandoned their relationships, jobs, and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn ...

ROME -- They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where cardinals ...

Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal ...

The steady stream of young women joining religious orders stopped decades ago. That means the sisters who remain have little ...

Victims' associations say the Vatican has not done enough, particularly by refusing to remove confessional secrecy ...

While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...

Neumann University, the Catholic university the Sisters founded in 1965, owns that building now and rents office space and ...

As cardinals prepare to gather in the Sistine Chapel to select the next pope, another assembly is underway just miles away: ...

In January, Francis made his highest-ranking female appointment, naming Sister Simona Brambilla prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Religious, which oversees nuns, monks and religious orders. The ...

The death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday has revived discussions on why women are excluded from becoming Pope, a position ...

with nuns providing healthcare and education in developing countries and plenty of women leading Catholic schools and universities. On the question of female involvement in a conclave, some have ...