According to recent figures from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, there are about 400 African American religious sisters, out of a total of roughly 40,000 nuns.

Subversive Habits presents straightforwardly the lives of Black Catholic women religious from the early 19th century through to the Black Lives Matter movement.

For the most part, these are grim days for Catholic nuns. Convents are closing, nuns are aging and there are relatively few new recruits. But in Nashville, Tenn., ...

In Shannan Dee Williams’ upcoming book, “Subversive Habits,” she presents 200 years of struggle and triumph in the lives of America’s Black nuns. It's a history ...

The fact that nun horror is most often set in earlier eras—­usually back when nuns were sporting habits and chanting in Latin—feels like a middle finger to these women, who had some measure ...

My qualifications are puny. I left the Catholic church in the organized religion exodus of the late 20th century. The path back begins when I start to walk around the city - with 3-year-old twins ...

Nuns without habits Melissa Camardo is young, bright, pretty and politically active. ... He called on the leaders of each Catholic order to compare their practices to their original missions.

In Shannan Dee Williams’ upcoming book, “Subversive Habits,” she presents 200 years of struggle and triumph in the lives of America’s Black nuns. It's a history ...

The hills are alive with medical studies conducted on nuns. June 12, 2007 — -- Next time you take a calcium pill to stave off osteoporosis, or extol the health benefits of beer to your buddy ...

A Kane County judge ruled Friday that a nun can wear her habit when she goes on trial next week on a traffic violation charge stemming from a fatal accident. After hearing an impassioned plea from ...

One Saturday afternoon this month a band gathered to jam at the Dominican House of Studies, not far from the Catholic University of America. The drummer, a Dominican friar, counted them down ...