Catholic nuns
In India, charges against a Catholic bishop a victory for abused nuns
By Brooke Thames — May 1, 2019
KOCHI, India (RNS) — Only after five of the victim's fellow nuns staged a 15-day protest outside Kerala’s high court building in Kochi last summer was the bishop, who denies the charges, arrested and eventually charged.
In Catholic-owned rooming house in Boston, older tenants face displacement
By Aysha Khan — April 5, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — Tenants of Our Lady’s Guild House, a low-income housing property for single women, say its owners, an order of Catholic nuns, have evicted older residents to make way for younger tenants.
Pope publicly acknowledges clergy sexual abuse of nuns
By Nicole Winfield — February 5, 2019
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — The acknowledgment comes just two weeks before he hosts an unprecedented gathering of bishops to craft a global response to the scandal of priestly predators.
US family discovers Chinese nuns who rescued adopted baby daughter
By Melanie Lidman — December 24, 2018
(Global Sisters Report) — Teagan is happily enjoying life in Chattanooga, Tennessee, doted on by her older siblings, and looking forward to her first Christmas in America.
Women’s network builds bridges amid Nigeria’s violence, Muslim and Christian mistrust
By Festus Iyorah — December 7, 2018
ABUJA, Kenya (RNS) — In Nigeria, an interfaith group of women is working to build peace between Muslims and Christians.
Surviving nun recalls Yemen massacre
By Rosie Scammell — March 18, 2016
ROME (RNS) The handwritten notes tell how gunmen hunted down the nuns, four of the 16 victims, and then destroyed the Christian symbols in the Catholic nursing home.
U.S. nuns haunted by dead Jesuit: the ghost of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By David Gibson — May 22, 2014
(RNS) A French Jesuit's ideas of "conscious evolution" may be at the heart of the showdown between American nuns and Vatican hard-liners.
Nuns say they will continue dialogue despite Vatican criticisms
By David Gibson — May 9, 2014
(RNS) Representatives of most of the 50,000 sisters in the U.S. flatly rejected the charges by Cardinal Gerhard Mueller but said their conversation “was constructive in its frankness and lack of ambiguity.”
Provocative art put Catholic nun in the middle of 1960s maelstrom
By David E. Anderson — July 11, 2012
(RNS) Combining images and words from advertising, pop culture and religion, the bold graphic art of Sister Mary Corita was as deeply representative of the spirit of the 1960s as it was ubiquitous in church basements, dorm rooms and urban communes of people involved in the struggle for civil rights and the campaign to end the Vietnam War. By David E. Anderson.
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