The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls while the pope is in the hospital.

Sisters JoAnn Persch, 90, and Pat Murphy, 95, have dedicated their lives to advocating for immigrant rights and the dignity ...

The last of the Poor Clare nuns have moved out of their Uptown New Orleans monastery near Audubon Park, leaving the future of ...

In a unanimous May 2016 decision, the Supreme Court overturned the lower-court rulings against the nuns and said the government should be able to find a better arrangement. When Donald Trump got ...

"The women religious in India have faced gender discrimination and sexual abuses that have caused mental health challenges ...

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries, I jumped at the chance. In Puebla, Mexico, where I grew up, some Catholic churches are ...

In 2012, with the initiative of a few senior women saints, Buddhist nuns got a home of their own. The female organisation of nuns started the work of the all-women monastery seeing the pathetic ...