Vatican complains after French court rules in favour of nun dismissed from religious order
Rome, Italy AP The Holy See said Saturday it formally protested to France after a court there ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order. The Lorient tribunal on 3rd April ruled in favour of the nun, […]
Nun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri
United StatesAP/Report for America Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it’s a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think. Sister Wilhelmina […]
World’s oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, dies at 118 – retirement home
Paris, FranceReuters French nun Sister Andre, the world’s oldest person, passed away at 118 in France, her retirement home told Reuters on Tuesday. Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, had survived COVID last year. She was born on 11th Fabruary, 1904, and was […]
Italian nun becomes highest ranking woman in Vatican
Vatocan City Reuters Pope Francis has for the first time named a woman to the number two position in the governorship of Vatican City, making her the highest-ranking woman in the world’s smallest state. The appointment on Thursday of Sister Raffaella Petrini, a 52-year-old Italian nun, is the latest in which the 84-year-old Pope has […]
US nun imprisoned over peace activism, Megan Rice, dies at 91
Rosemont, Pennsylvania, USAP Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died. She was 91. Rice died of congestive heart failure on 10th October at Holy Child Center in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, according to her […]
Colombian nun held hostage in Mali since 2017 has been freed
Bamako, MaliReuters A Colombian nun who was kidnapped in 2017 by Islamist militants in Mali has been freed, Mali’s presidency said on Saturday. Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was kidnapped by the Macina Liberation Front, an al-Qaeda-linked group, in February, 2017, near the border with Burkina Faso. “The presidency of Mali salutes the courage and bravery of […]
Lifestory: Socialite-turned-monastic Ann Russell Miller dies at 92
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, looks at the unusual life of an American nun…
Former art studio of LA’s ‘pop art nun’ designated as historic monument
Los Angeles, USRNS The former Hollywood art studio of Corita Kent – a Roman Catholic religious sister who was known for her pop art covering racism, poverty and misogyny – has been officially designated a historic cultural monument. Known as LA’s “pop art nun,” Kent’s studio, which is now a dry cleaner, had been slated […]
COVID-defying nun toasts 117th birthday with wine and prayer
AP Question: How do you fit 117 candles onto a birthday cake for the world’s second-oldest person? Answer: You can’t. A French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person was celebrating her 117th birthday in style on Thursday. There were plans for Champagne and red wine, a feast with her favourite dessert, […]
Lifestory: Celebrating Sister Ardeth Platte, anti-nuclear activist and “peacemaker in a hostile world”
In an article first published on The Conversation, CAROL SARGENT, of Georgetown University, writes about the life of activist nun Sister Ardeth Platte who died last month at the age of 84…