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, ...

Pope Leo XIV is set to create seven new saints Sunday, including the first from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the ...

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 ...

According to regional councilor Massimo Sertori, the 21 nuns residing at the monastery were evacuated safely. Nineteen of the ...

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 ...

Sister Rosa, born Ngoc Hong Thi Pham in Vietnam, says the children she teaches at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy in ...

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 ...

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 ...