Catholic News Service

Singing is an integral part of life for a cloistered order of nuns, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in rural Missouri. The nuns have just released their 10th album. 

A case before the Supreme Court Nov. 1 argues that death-row chaplains should be able to pray aloud with inmates and place their hands on them in prayer during executions.

In a walking "pilgrimage for racial justice," 150 or so participants listened to a panel of Sisters of Charity discuss their congregation's own pilgrimage -- from its early years as slaveholders to its efforts today for racial justice.

There might be angels in the outfield, but in the Space City, the Houston Astros have Dominicans in the stands. Dubbed the "Rally Nuns," the Dominican Sisters of Mary Immaculate Province, a growing congregation of Vietnamese consecrated women religious in Houston, became a viral sensation during the American League Championship Series in Houston in late October. The Astros won both games, helping them topple the Boston Red Sox to punch their ticket to the World Series.  

Religious women must live out their calling in a spirit of openness that gives hope to those who have none and closes the generational gap between young and old, Pope Francis said.

Nigeria has 10.5 million children who are out of school. The Missionary Sisters of St. John Paul II of Mary are working to whittle away at that statistic.

A group of women looking for sons and daughters who were never heard from again after migrating to the U.S. traveled in mid- to late October throughout the country to plead for better immigration laws.

During an online panel about the death penalty Oct. 19, panelists stressed how capital punishment goes against church teaching.

Sister Megan Rice, whose yearslong crusade against nuclear weapons included serving two years behind bars for a felony, died Oct. 10.

"We genuinely believe Smith & Wesson has the knowledge and the expertise to engineer the solutions we need to reduce gun violence and save lives. ... A human rights policy would help Smith and Wesson demonstrate that it is neither tone-deaf or callous to the cries for change and for the solutions to gun violence we so desperately need."

The case may be old, but the issues are still relevant, which is why Donald Cameron Clark Jr. wrote Summary Judgment, a book detailing how he got an Alabama man's death sentence overturned.

It was 100 years ago — on Sept. 24, 1921 — when the Maryknoll Sisters first set sail from Vancouver, British Columbia, to China, the order's first mission.

Members of different congregations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, volunteer to assist medical staff in taking care of patients with the coronavirus as well as carry out logistical work.

One month after two Catholic sisters were executed on a road in South Sudan, their killers remain unidentified, and church leaders are losing patience with an apparent lack of progress in resolving the murder.

Mother Mary Paschal of the Lamb of God was elected abbess July 29, taking on the same post that was once held by Mother Angelica, founder of both the monastery and the global Catholic communications network known as EWTN.

"Our work is going to need to really focus on helping our diocesan directors access their state funders for this and also provide whatever support we can within limits. We don't have all kinds of money," Dominican Sr. Donna Markham said.

The 46-year-old Italian is an economist and professor of economic policy, an adviser to the governing office of Vatican City State, and a consultant to the Synod of Bishops.

There are nine Sisters Servants of Mary in New Orleans, but the demands for their service far exceed their ability to care for all of those who request their presence.