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
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
When Sister Michaela Rak opened the first hospice in Lithuania in 2009, she didn't know she would open a whole new world for palliative care patients in this post-Soviet block European country. "Dying is a very intimate part of life. And many
In recent years, the Sisters of Life have led Holy Hours called “The Source.” The sisters welcome Catholics and non-Catholics alike to be with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, whom they recognize as “the source and summit of our faith,” during their
Last year the Sisters of St. Basil the Great, Jesus Lover of Humanity Province in Pennsylvania shipped a cargo container to sisters in Ukraine after the Russian invasion. It was filled with medical supplies, toiletries and clothes donated by churches, community groups,
Divine intervention may be the only explanation for how two college teammates graduated, ventured off on different career paths miles apart and then, 40 years later, ended up on the same journey in Miami, both wearing habits. “I think we met at
The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women, has taken a step forward.
Sister Rita Michelle Proctor, superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, said her religious community received a