The #churchtoo nuns who’ve become on-line warriors against sexual misconduct in the Greek Orthodox church were allegedly abused by a Brooklyn priest — and then threatened by church officials ...

On Tuesday, February 5th, Pope Francis offered his first public comments on what the Associated Press called a “global and pervasive” scandal that has quietly plagued the Roman Catholic Church ...

The church, agreed Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun who lives in Erie, Pa., cannot continue to stand on its “tripod culture” of “silence, exclusivity and demonization.” “What has ...

Nuns are also the people in the church who work the most with pregnant women, the mothers of newborns, and battered women and children. They know better than anyone that a concern for life cannot ...

To the Editor: I read with interest Bryan A. Roberts’ Aug. 15 letter concerning nuns, ... Nuns now use skills to represent the church . Published: Aug. 19, 2012, 6:00 a.m. By .

The Roman Catholic Church is investigating how two nuns on separate charity missions to Africa became pregnant. The nuns were sent to their home countries in Africa from their order in Sicily to ...

I was as surprised as the next person when I recognized that I might be drawn to becoming a Catholic nun. I graduated from pharmacy school in 1981 and was out of the church during my college years.