Sister Jean discusses Loyola’s magical Final Four run, why she loves being around young people and where she believes the Catholic Church is headed.
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Sister Nathalie Becquart will be the first woman to vote with bishops at a synod. Her advice for young women? Listen.
Becquart has been traveling the globe in recent weeks as an ambassador for the Synod on Synodality, planned for October in Rome.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis said women are the future of South Sudan. Meet 3 who are building peace today.
“If the women of South Sudan are given an opportunity to develop, to have space to be productive, South Sudan will be transformed.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Sister Jean, everyone’s favorite courtside nun
Sister Jean, the beloved chaplain of Loyola Chicago’s men’s basketball team, has 103 years worth of stories to tell in her new memoir.
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These Philadelphia nuns are raised up on Eagles’ wings
Many Catholic nuns, in the Philadelphia area as elsewhere, are known to be among the country’s most rabid sports fans.
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Sister André, a French nun and oldest known person in world, dies at age 118
Sister André, a Catholic convert raised in a Protestant family, was born Lucile Randon Feb. 11, 1904. She lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and through 10 pontificates.
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The church forbids ‘human composting’ at death. But what about ‘green’ burials?
The movement for natural burial is growing and is slowly becoming more mainstream in the United States, but the practice is as old and widespread as our species.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Unveiling the history of Black Catholic nuns: Shannen Dee Williams’s ‘Subversive Habits’
Shannen Dee Williams’s ‘Subversive Habits’ uncovers—with authoritative, painstaking scholarship—a great deal of what was hidden and some of what has been erased concerning white supremacy in the Roman Catholic Church.
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How immigrants enrich women’s religious orders
Nearly 400 international religious institutes have extended their mission to the United States. This has helped the ranks of women religious better reflect an increasingly diverse Catholic population.
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83-year-old American nun freed after five months of captivity in Burkina Faso
Marianite Sister Ann Lacour said that fellow Sister Suellen Tennyson, who was kidnapped from the convent of her educational and medical mission in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, is now safe and on American soil.