The Violins of Hope could be admired in a museum for their design: curved lines and refurbished finishes, inlaid stars of ...

The family of Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, an Irish nun who founded upstate New York’s Carmelite Sisters for the Aged ...

My 82-year-old spiritual director, Sr. Connie Kramer, had an inoperable brain tumor in the shape of a butterfly. Her spiritual guidance was present until the end. Grief calls us to not fear death, but ...

A detective investigating a murder stumbled on something else — a “case within a case,” he called it — involving a long-lost ...

Archbishop Ronald Hicks was officially installed Friday as New York’s top Catholic leader, outlining a vision of a missionary ...

From the Sisters of Life convent in North Philadelphia comes a witness to the transforming power of vulnerability and ...

Homeboy Industries this week purchased the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood Hills and plans to turn the four-acre ...

In some cultures, menstruation and childbirth are treated as polluting, not life-giving. One Buddhist text’s interpretation ...

Servant of God Thea Bowman's canonization cause is moving ahead, with a Mass and ceremony marking the closure of the cause's ...

Any priest who has served in a parish with a long history is familiar with the Boomers who, having enough time on their hands, become amateur genealogists. They seek information of baptismal records ...

In the case of L’Estasi di Santa Teresa, the project was funded by the Cornaro family. Specifically, by Venetian Cardinal Federico Cornaro, who we might assume was a big fan of Santa Teresa de Jesús, ...

St Brigid was the feminist, peacemaker and environmentalist who went on to become the female patron saint of Ireland ...