When a young girl named Teresa Elizabeth Falke entered a Kansas convent 70 years ago, she was the oldest of eight children in a Catholic farm family in Westphalia, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of ...

Sister Rose Pacatte from the Daughters of St. Paul has been a nun for nearly 60 years and currently lives in Rome. Related: Republican Voters Are Finally Tearing Into Trump Over One Issue, But It's ...

I was 7 when I first watched "The Sound of Music," and it left me with the impression that a nun's vocation involved sabotaging Nazi vehicles and belting out show tunes. For a few months afterward, I ...

Among the women Williams interviewed extensively was Patricia Grey, who was a nun in the Sisters of Mercy and a founder of the NBSC before leaving religious life in 1974. Grey shared with The ...

TUAM, Ireland — Anna Corrigan thought she was an only child. It wasn't until she was in her 50s, researching her family tree, that she discovered a family secret: Corrigan found documents showing her ...

The U.S. feminist movement’s perpetual quest for gender equality has suffered notable setbacks during President Donald Trump’s second term — including the dismantling of various nondiscrimination ...