NEW YORK -- The umbrella group for U.S. Roman Catholic nuns says the Vatican crackdown on their organization is based on unfounded claims and has hurt the church. The Leadership Conference of ...

A group of Roman Catholic nuns began a nine-state bus tour protesting proposed federal budget cuts Monday, saying they weren't trying to flout recent Vatican criticisms of socially active nuns but ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group of Roman Catholic nuns is set to leave Des Moines on a two-week bus tour of nine states to protest Republican federal budget ...

The latest worldwide data from 2006 found 993,171 active and cloistered nuns — a drop of 7,887 from 2005. The biggest drop was seen among active community-based nuns, with 753,400 in 2006, down ...

BOSTON (AP) - An order of Roman Catholic nuns has sued the Boston Archdiocese and Cardinal Sean O'Malley after years of failed efforts to withdraw from a church-run pension fund. The Daughters of St.

The Kerala Catholic Congress has launched a scathing attack on CPI(M) state secretary M.V. Govindan, condemning his recent ...

Christian community groups have drawn the attention of international organisations, including the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, to the arrest of two Roman Catholic nuns in ...

This day in history: With shortage of nuns and students, Spokane’s Catholic schools faced challenges. Gov. Roland Hartley took flight at Felts Field Sun., June 8, 2025 ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Four Rwandans, including two Roman Catholic nuns, were sent to prison yesterday after a Belgian court convicted them of homicide in a war crimes trial hailed by human rights ...

The Religious Sisters of Mercy, a religious order of Catholic nuns, opened Mercy College as a women's school in 1941. The two institutions merged in 1990 to become the University of Detroit Mercy.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A group of Roman Catholic nuns began a nine-state bus tour protesting proposed federal budget cuts Monday, saying they weren’t trying to flout recent Vatican criticisms ...