COMMENTARY: In a time of prejudice and social tension, a single afternoon with a group of Franciscan sisters offered an ...

During an audience of religious sisters belonging to several orders, Pope Leo XIV told the group that rootedness in Christ ...

Pope Leo XIV greets a woman religious during an audience with members of the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great, the ...

A week after Pope Leo XIV was elected, Catholic sisters around the world have hopes for change under the new pontiff — and are even suggesting possible papal priorities, including an expanded ...

Order has served the House of Loreto from its beginning “We are privileged to take on the stewardship of this esteemed institution,” Bharat Thakkar, owner of Hari Group, said in the statement.

Overseas, Ireland is home to fewer than 4,000 nuns and sisters — down from 13,000 in the 1960s — while the United States has seen a 65 per cent decrease since 1965. Africa is one of the few ...

Plans to bulldoze the former Loreto Convent in Altrincham to build two luxury homes ... The convent was established in 1909 by the Loreto Sisters, a religious order founded by Mary Ward in ...

With the Sisters of Loreto, the teenage Agnes was given the religious name "Sister Mary Teresa," in honor of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Vatican's website stated.

Loreto O'Connor is the only Sister of Saint Joseph still based in Penola. During the mass each Friday, she reads out the prayers written in a book in a shrine to Mary at the St Joseph's church.

Membership in the Missionaries of Charity runs to roughly 5,750 sisters around the world, making it difficult to assess how systemic the abuses described in these reports actually are.

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AN end of an era occurred in Enniscorthy, in Co Wexford, recently when the Sisters of St John of God said farewell to their home in Loreto Village.