President Joe Biden will award the nation’s highest civilian honor to a Catholic sister next week.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
50 years after a group of Catholic sisters formed Network, the activist group pledges to focus on racial justice
Network, known for its “Nuns on the Bus” campaign, is celebrating an anniversary. But it is not slowing down its efforts toward creating a racially, economically and socially just world.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope Francis praises Sister Carol Keehan—a key player in Obamacare passing—at award ceremony
Carol Keehan, D.C., the former head of the Catholic Health Association who was credited with helping pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, was recognized with the Spirit of Francis Award from Catholic Extension.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Religious orders launch initiative to care for nuns with dementia
A $5 million donation is going to help launch the Catholic Sisters Cognitive Impairment-Alzheimer’s Global Initiative, a project to help religious orders care for sisters with dementia.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis approved spending 1 million euros to free nun kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked militants
Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday.
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‘Subversive Habits’ tells the compelling and long-overlooked history of Black Catholic nuns
After 14 years of tenacious research, Shannen Dee Williams arguably now knows more about America’s Black nuns than anyone in the world.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis names a Jesuit and a nun to lead human development dicastery
Pope Francis formalized appointments to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and named new secretaries to the restructured Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Ukrainian nuns transform their monastery to welcome refugees
A quiet monastery in the western Ukrainian village of Hoshiv has transformed itself into a giant playground for a dozen children who’ve been displaced by the war with their families.
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83-year-old American nun kidnapped by gunmen in Burkina Faso
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
I wrote the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the U.S. Here’s what I learned.
Writing the first full history of Black Catholic women religious in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams experienced the gamut of human emotions.