He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

Nuns with a priest on the steps of the León Cathedral in Nicaragua. (Photo by Adam Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0) Nicaragua's government issued an ultimatum to the country's remaining religious sisters ...

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world's oldest living person at nearly 117 following the ...

Choosing the best soap for your face can be confusing. Should you pick a bar soap or a liquid soap? A foaming solution or a non-foaming solution? Or should you go with a facial cloth? Not too long ago ...

Meet the group of chart-topping nuns aiming to beat Wham! and Mariah Carey to this year's Christmas No. 1 spot. The Poor Clares of Arundel have already topped classical music charts by swapping ...

Recently, scientists at Liverpool John Moores University used his skull to reconstruct his face. Elected as Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor, in the fourth century AD — before Christianity was even ...

she counted back from three and “took a leap of faith,” revealing to them that she wanted to become a nun.

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1% of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has remained ...