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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Right now, Sr. Mary Christa added, there's “confusion” – over questions such as why some sisters wear habits and some don't – and her hope is that this year marks the start of “a fruitful ...

We want our bodies to be healthy, but in that quest, some of us adopt habits we think are doing us good — but actually aren't. Many of the habits we think are healthy may actually be doing us ...

“I don’t even necessarily want to go on TikTok. It’s a habit, and it’s something that’s hard to break.” Ms. Kalata may have to quit cold turkey. The Supreme Court on Friday backed a ...

Sr Clare Crockett, a nun from Brandywell in Co Derry who died in 2016, is officially a 'Servant of God' following the opening of the cause for her beatification in a ceremony at the Cathedral of ...