Every summer, Catholic history is made in Nashville, when the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, headquartered in the Tennessee city for 163 years, receive new members. History is made, writes Monsignor Owen F. Campion, because while communities of women religious are almost
When a community of religious sisters in 17th-century England established their convent, they kept their new home a secret: It was illegal to be Catholic. Today, the “Bar Convent” is still open — and welcomes visitors from far and wide as the
When Mother Mary Concepta, S.V., found out that she would serve as the new superior general of the Sisters of Life — a community of religious women dedicated to promoting the inherent dignity and worth of every human person — she felt
When the first Sisters of Nazareth embraced the legacy of their founder Victoire Larmenier, they dedicated their lives to sharing the love of God through their ministries of care and education, and their “openness to the needs of the times.” The needs
Twice recently in California — once in the state Capitol and again by the Los Angeles Dodgers — those who mock Catholic nuns have been given a place of prominence. In his latest column, Msgr. Owen Campion looks at the legacy of
Thousands flock to Missouri for ‘electrifying’ visit to nun’s apparently incorrupt body over Memorial Day weekend
Thousands flocked to a rural Missouri monastery over the Memorial Day weekend to venerate the apparently incorrupt body of a Benedictine nun with visitors telling OSV News the experience has been spiritually powerful for them.
"It's electrifying. It's galvanizing the hearts of the
The recent discovery of a Black American nun's apparently incorrupt remains in Missouri highlights the rich heritage of Black Catholics in the U.S., experts told OSV News.
During an April 28 exhumation, the body of Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster of the Most Holy
Katie Yoder writes that 10 cloistered nuns belonging to the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph will be leaving New York City and relocating to a 13-acre property in Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania. The community plans to build a
Sisters founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in New York vote to stop accepting new members, begin ‘path to completion’
Sadness, relief and hope accompanied the April 13 decision by the Sisters of Charity of New York to embark on a "path to completion," according to Sister Donna Dodge, president of the congregation founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Delegates to the group's
Church officials from a diocese in northern Costa Rica confirmed that they welcomed two women religious, members of the Dominican Sisters of the Anunciata, after they were expelled from neighboring Nicaragua in mid-April.
In a video posted on the Facebook page of the