Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but shows little signs of increasing. Between 100 and 200 young women enter into a ...

"Evolving Religious Life," a continuing series from Global Sisters Report, explores how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations in transition and new forms of religious life.

4 religious sisters with local ties share in their own words how the friar inspired their own vocations enough for them to adopt his name as their own. Sister Solanus Casey Danda, SOLT, second from ...

Palmyra, Pa. — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three ...

John Flanagan, executive director of the Labouré Society, noted that canon law requires those entering religious life to be free from debts that they are unable to pay. Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune ...

As the U.S. Church celebrates National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3–9, a prioress of a contemplative community in France remembers how it took years for the Church to recognize the religious ...

Zoey Stapleton, a postulant with the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, attends Mass in Toronto, Ohio on Nov. 7, 2024. AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski PALMYRA, Pa. — It was a ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, ...