Pope Appoints Nun to Lead Vatican Department - The New York …
1 day ago · Pope Names Nun to Head a Vatican Department, a First for a Woman ... “This is very good news,” said Anne-Marie Pelletier, a theologian who has also written a book about women and the church ...
Texas nuns dismissed from religious life after lengthy feud with …
4 days ago · A group of Texas nuns has been dismissed from religious life and returned to the lay state after a lengthy feud with their bishop over the governance of their monastery.
Vatican suppresses Texas monastery after Carmelite order dismissed its nuns
Dec 4, 2024 · The Holy See has suppressed the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, a month after its residents were dismissed from the Carmelite order and religious life. The decree,...
Texas nuns in battle with Fort Worth bishop are dismissed from ...
Oct 31, 2024 · FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — A group of Texas nuns engaged in a yearlong dispute with Catholic Church leadership has been dismissed from religious life and “reverted to the lay state,” according to...
Meet the young women joining the ranks of Catholic nuns, a …
Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood. In 2021 just after the global pandemic she made the rare decision to join the diminishing ranks of Catholic sisters in the U.S as part of the 1% of American nuns under the age of 30. (AP Video: Jessie Wardarski)
Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns | AP News
Dec 20, 2024 · Just this year the pope urged orders to pray harder for more priests and nuns as he acknowledged the number of men and women entering Catholic religious life continues to plummet in parts of the world, including Europe and the U.S. Here are other takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns.
Young nuns: Two diverse paths to a rare life of faith | AP News
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious community and begin the long process to become nuns. Here are their stories. From Ghana to Texas to a New Orleans convent
Arlington nuns dismissed from Catholic religious life, Fort ... - CBS News
Oct 30, 2024 · The Fort Worth Catholic Diocese announced Monday that a group of nuns at the center of controversy have been dismissed from Catholic religious life. CBS News Texas Reporter Jason Allen first...
Texas Nuns Fired After Seeking Bishop Restraining Order
Oct 31, 2024 · A group of nuns in Arlington, Texas, has been formally "dismissed from religious life" and their Carmelite order following a protracted dispute with the Bishop of Fort Worth that reached the...
Nuns - Latest news - Catholic News Agency
The four nuns spent up to 11 years researching 481,215 celestial bodies for the Vatican Observatory. Read more. The former house of the Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ...