When Emma Atkinson told her father that she wanted to be a cloistered Carmelite nun, he thought it was a fleeting desire.

This can have adverse effects on your physical and mental wellbeing. Fortunately, there are some simple, healthy habits you can adopt to stay relatively healthy — and you really should adopt ...

While most children in Singapore are in good health, many have already picked up poor habits, including too much screen time and junk food, and too little exercise and sleep, as large-scale ...

It’s bad enough when secular institutions do this. But religious institutions are supposed to provide a moral example, even when it’s not easy. When spiritual authorities ignore their values ...

In 2020, you might remember something called the ‘Shopping Trolley Theory’ going viral. Basically, it was meant to determine whether you were a good person or not based on whether you would ...

In less than a month and a half, Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State. The change will take ...

Snow is super rare in the New Orleans metro, and so is a priest and three nuns braving the frigid temps for an epic snowball fight. And the battle was caught on camera. The Rev. Timothy Hedrick ...

In 1956 the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte bought the building and land to start the Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph and the Holy Child. The first nuns came from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to help ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m here because I’m a Negro, a nun ...

When President Joe Biden took office four years ago, some more conservative religious freedom advocates were hopeful that he would turn down the temperature of faith-related culture wars. As a ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a culture wars dispute and decide whether parents have a religious liberty right to have their children “opt out” of using school ...