Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

It’s been a big week for the papacy. From Pope Francis' sassy selection of a new Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (a frequent ...

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil, Inah Canabarro Lucas, has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living ...

Pope Francis had a message for nuns, convey joy while refraining from gossip, he said as he addressed a gathering of nuns ...

A woman known as the 'fastest nun in the West,' who served areas of Santa Fe and Albuquerque in the late 1800's, is one step ...

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

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 ...

Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of two Catholic nuns. They were abducted by unidentified gunmen along Ufuma Road, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state. The command’s ...

Sister Blandina Segale is the first woman in New Mexico the Archdiocese of Santa Fe has ever petitioned to be declared a ...