For more than a year, the nuns who operate the House of Loreto nursing home in Canton have been praying that a tax won’t force them to close their 46-year-old facility, which serves 50 elderly ...

Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now Skopje, Macedonia, joined the Loreto order of nuns in 1928 and said she was inspired to found the Missionaries of Charity while on a trip ...

As the ageing population of Irish nuns teeters on the brink of extinction, GEMMA O'DOHERTY speaks to the woman in charge of finding new recruits for the Loreto order ...

The new structure will house the 24 nuns currently living in House of Loreto Nursing Home building. The Congregation of the Divine Spirit was founded in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1956.