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

Maryanne Braverman, now 77, spent 10 years as a nun in a New York-based convent, which she joined just after graduating high ...

Elena Maraga is a sweet infant room teacher at a Catholic nursery, spending her days rocking infants and supervising tummy ...

"The women religious in India have faced gender discrimination and sexual abuses that have caused mental health challenges for many, driving some to suicide," said Sr. Molly Mathew, who coordinates ...

Since 2025 is a Holy Year for the Catholic Church, with 32 million pilgrims projected to visit Rome, related calls make up a ...

Plus, she wasn’t the first sister to stray. “Many nuns who'd been in before me were gradually leaving, and fewer women entered because you didn't just have three or four choices as a good Catholic ...

Women who might in the past have become nuns ... It's the adherence and teaching of the faith that make the school Catholic." Nuns can bring their order's particular mission to classrooms, but ...

As we reflect on the fifth anniversary of the start of the Covid lockdown, and as we mark the end of March as Women’s History Month, History Cambridge looks back on our exploration of women’s roles as ...