When the last two Sisters of Mercy remaining in Columbus retired this month, 162 years of nuns serving this community came to a close. It’s part of a national trend. The number of nuns ...

The frenzied car trip came after the nuns heard that the archbishop was planning to seize spare keys from janitors and change the locks on two of the convents. “They drove like fury,” said ...

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1 percent of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has ...

Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but shows little signs of increasing. Between 100 and 200 young women enter ...

Dafo pointed to the tube well provided by the nuns, expressing her gratitude. "This tube well meets the needs of all ten members of my family. We received it in December, just before Christmas ...

KATHMANDU — About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwishers at the long ...

About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering well-wishers at the long-awaited reopening ...

A boarding house run by Catholic nuns in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been a home to over 100 children from impoverished families, nurturing their hopes for a brighter future. In early ...

Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen for The New York Times The frenzied car trip came after the nuns heard that the archbishop was planning to seize spare keys from janitors and change the locks on two of the ...