What does a nun’s life look like? As part of National Sisters Week, a group of young girls from Saint Francis International School met the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the oldest order of African-American nuns, in Baltimore, Maryland for the chance to see what living religious life looks like. The initiative was also an opportunity to showcase the diversity found in religious life.
Women Religious
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Capuchin sisters take to boxing in video to raise money for orphanage
The nuns are shown limbering up in their habits before strapping on gloves and slugging it out to the theme song from “Rocky.”
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What you don’t know about Loyola’s Sister Jean
You have likely seen the profiles, the gifs, the memes, the television spots. But there is much that you have not seen.
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Irish-born religious recall leaving homeland to devote lives to U.S. kids
After World War II, American classrooms swelled with baby boomers. Desperate for English-speaking sisters, some bishops turned to Ireland for help.
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Nuns fight child trafficking in coastal Kenya
The area is known as a haven for sex tourism.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Where are the millennial Catholic activists?
Millennials need to acknowledge that our parents’ generation will not be able to lead the way forever.
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Religious sisters convince Midwest utilities’ company to take action on climate change.
“It’s up to shareholders to put before corporations how important it is to work on less emissions.”
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Vatican magazine: Nuns are often treated like servants by cardinals and bishops
“Behind all this is the unfortunate idea…that priests are everything in the church while sisters are nothing.”
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Mexican diocese withdraws nuns from violent city
The Roman Catholic diocese where two priests were killed earlier this month has withdrawn all nuns from the hyper-violent city of Chilapa in southern Mexico.
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What unique contributions do women religious offer the church?
America spoke to a number of young women religious about the vital contributions they and their fellow sisters make to the Catholic Church.