“She had an insane experience where she wanted to die and decided to devote her life to something [after], and then other people came in and were a part of it...
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.
Convent Wisdom By Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Since I find inspiration in the devotion and ministry of women religious, I was...
Before it was called Trout Lake, the nearly 4,000-acre body of water in Vilas County, Wisconsin had a different name. An Ojibwe wild rice technician dug up...
Faith-based groups—including Catholics—have successfully asked a sporting goods store to stop selling assault rifles, tech companies to ban the transmission of...
In many parishes across the United States, foreign aid remains an abstract concept—a line item in the budget, a title in the news tickers, a political debate...
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...
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...
