Religion News Service

As criminal organizations extend their control over Haiti, kidnappings have continued to terrorize the country’s residents, with Catholic priests and other missionaries becoming some of the most common targets.

From 2020 to 2022, more than 900 women and men entered religious life. They all took their own, sometimes circuitous routes to get there.

The lawsuit from Ken Paxton's office "seeks to revoke Annunciation House's authorization to do business in Texas and asks the court to appoint a receiver to liquidate their assets."

The Rev. Timothy Keller, an evangelical Christian theologian who died earlier this year, and Catholic Sr. Norma Pimentel, known for her work with migrants, have been chosen by a Christian organization to be the first recipients of its Civic Renewal Award.

Called to examine power structures in the Catholic Church, the Synod on Synodality will grapple in large part with the role of women.

The LA chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said it was saddened that the team succumbed "to pressure from persons outside of the State of California and outside of our community."

The North American Association of Dominican Monasteries has partnered with the Dominican Friars of the Western Province as they prepare to launch a public process to explore future options for the restoration and use of the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood Hills.

The book includes three years' worth of emailed letters back and forth on such subjects as saints, holiness, beauty, suffering and prayer.

After six years of prayer and outside consultation, and a shove from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Daughters of St. Paul have decided to reconfigure its presence across the United States and Toronto.

Two Kansas nuns are voicing opposition to a proposed abortion-related amendment in their state's constitution despite its support by a local archbishop. 

Fearing the Monastery of the Angels could be sold for redevelopment, Los Angeles preservationists are forming a nonprofit as they seek to acquire and take responsibility for the home to cloistered Dominican nuns.

Opinion - Pope Francis' leadership is noteworthy not only because of its departure from papal precedent, but also because it incorporates key elements of the courageous, joyful, authentic and inclusive energy of Catholic sisters.

In February, the pope named Sr. Nathalie Becquart, the French religious sister of the Congregation of Xavières to become the undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, a summit of church leaders at the Vatican set to address the most cogent topics facing the institution. She is among the women and lay people helping to shape the future of the institution. 

A growing number of women hold consequential positions in the church and at the Vatican. Nuns in the United States have been among those setting the pace. 

Ann Russell Miller was a wealthy socialite, not a woman of moderation. But more than 30 years ago, Miller took vows of silence and poverty to become Sr. Mary Joseph at a Carmelite monastery in Illinois. She died there June 5.

It took some getting used to, but Sr. Maria Minerva Morales is now a faithful user of a cell phone app where she documents her interactions with people she ministers to.

A Catholic nun, kneeling before armed forces in Myanmar and begging them not to open fire on protesters, has become a symbol for the protests against the military coup that destabilized the country in February.

The former Hollywood art studio of a Catholic religious sister who was known for her pop art covering racism, poverty and misogyny appears to have been spared from the wrecking ball after all.

The letter accuses "some elected officials" of making "the immoral choice to hold onto power at any cost, including disenfranchising thousands, denying their most sacred gift: their voice."

Sr. Ardeth Platte, a Dominican order nun who fought for nuclear disarmament and later served as an inspiration for a character on the popular Netflix show "Orange Is the New Black," died in her sleep at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30.