Nuns, friars partner to explore future for iconic shuttered Hollywood monastery
Los Angeles, USRNS For nearly a century, the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood Hills served as home to a community of cloistered Dominican nuns who devoted their lives to study Scripture and to pray for those who came to them for guidance and penance. But the community dwindled as the nuns aged and […]
These US Catholic nuns are raised up on Eagles’ wings
United StatesRNS Sister Margaret Fagan, principal of St Aloysius Academy for Boys in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a half hour west of downtown Philadelphia, is so sure the local team will win the Super Bowl on Sunday that she’s already designated Monday a school holiday. Fagan’s decision to give the kids an extra day off isn’t […]
Prominent Jesuit priest and artist disciplined after abuse allegations
Rome, ItalyReuters The Roman Catholic Jesuit order said it disciplined a prominent priest and artist who reportedly sexually and psychologically abused nuns in his native Slovenia three decades ago. The Jesuits issued a statement about Father Marko Ivan Rupnik following Italian media reports last week that several nuns had accused him of abuse in the […]
Burkina Faso bishop says American nun freed by captors
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso AP An 83-year-old American nun kidnapped from her bed in Burkina Faso earlier this year has been released by her captors unharmed, Catholic Church officials in the West African nation said Wednesday. Sister Suellen Tennyson had been abducted by 10 gunmen without her blood pressure medication. The church statement about her release, […]
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnap four Catholic nuns on highway
Lagos, Nigeria Reuters Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest […]
Life beyond the grille: On Greece’s Santorini, 13 cloistered nuns pray for the world
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of The Associated Press, reports on the lives of the nuns of the Monastery of St Catherine and their ongoing commitment to prayer…
Benedictine monks and nuns return to St Edmundsbury in England for the first time in 500 years
Hundreds of Benedictine monks and nuns descended on St Edmundsbury Cathedral in England’s east last weekend as part of the cathedral’s 1000 year celebrations – the first time such a gathering had been seen in the country in almost 500 years. The monks and nuns came from across the UK as well as countries including Belgium […]
Feminists rally for Argentine nuns who denounced archbishop
Salta, Argentina AP Feminist groups have rallied to the support of 18 cloistered Carmelite nuns who have filed an unusual complaint of gender violence against the local Catholic archbishop. Dozens of activists gathered Tuesday in the esplanade of the Convent of St Bernard in Salta, some 1,400 kilometres north-west of Buenos Aires. Women protest holding […]
Argentine nuns accuse archbishop, others of gender violence
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAP Several feminist groups are calling for protests Tuesday in support of a community of cloistered nuns who have caused shockwaves by accusing the archbishop of a northern Argentine province and other church officials of gender-based psychological and physical violence. The pairing of feminists and Carmelite nuns is unusual in a country at […]
An overlooked contribution: A new compelling new history of Black Catholic nuns in the US
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on a new comprehensive history of Black Catholic nuns in the US…