Tucked into eight acres on Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay, St. Joseph’s Villa has been a place of respite and retreat since 1960, tended by the Sisters of St...
Women religious
Read stories about religious women working in powerful ways to fulfill their Catholic calling, such as studying cosmology and fighting for migrant rights.
At an Apache sacred site in Arizona, Chi’chil Bildagoteel—known in English as Oak Flat—Catholic sisters joined Apache elders and youth this year, on July 18...
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). On Palm Sunday in 1942, a traumatized Jewish child knocked on the...
“Who do you say I am?” asks Jesus in Luke’s gospel (9:20). His words imply he’s not interested in doctrine or theology. He wants a personal response, not a...
By all accounts, Mother Mary Lange was a holy woman. She was also a revolutionary in every way that a visibly Black nun ministering in the slaveholding and...
When I first meet Sister Norma Pimentel over Zoom, not five minutes have gone by before she needs to pause and take an important call. “I’m sorry,” she says in...
Women’s religious congregations have a rich treasure that has remained relatively hidden from the rest of the world. Historians and genealogists are only now...
“This wasn’t the book I wanted to write,” says Dominican Sister Laurie Brink about her recent book, The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God (Liturgical Press)...
The following is an excerpt from The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America (Fortress Press, May 9, 2023) “You hold me only when...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify With the help of NETWORK’s historian, Mara Rutten, we explore the 50-year history of U.S. Catholic sisters’...
