A photo illustration by Oona Zenda of KFF Health News. ST. LOUIS — Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For 98-year-old Sister Angela Rooney, it was one of the most jarring moves of her life. She always thought she would live out her days as she had for decades, in a convent under the ...

More than 20 nuns were evacuated from a historic monastery in Italy after the building went up in flames. A huge fire tore ...

A flock of cloistered nuns escaped their nearly 400-year-old Italian monastery after a devastating fire broke out late ...

Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. (Oona Zenda/KFF Health ...

An Oct. 11 fire severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered ...

After a Catholic leader dismissed seven south Arlington nuns from their order, a foundation in support of the sisters is exploring potential legal action. Six months ago, the Vatican named Mother ...

A small group of Carmelite nuns in Arlington called their recent dismissal from religious life a “moot point’ and said a post concerning their dismissal on the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth’s website ...

Sister Mary Isidore Lennon, director of St. John’s Hospital outpatient and social service departments, treats a patient in the hospital’s clinic in October 1954. The Sisters of Mercy opened St. John’s ...

Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. Nuns founded and led ...