We're saying goodbye to our eldest Sister this week. Sister Loretta would have turned 99 years old this June, but she decided to celebrate that birthday in heaven. (Although there is some confusion as to what year she was actually born). The picture is from this past Christmas Eve. We have a traditi...

  We don't specifically set out to attack the Catholic Church, Catholicism itself, or any specific religion or practice. But when we see hypocrisy or any other repulsive public behavior, we'll call it like we see it... A nun in India, like the ones pictured above, is speaking out about ...

  The atheist bus campaign rolls on.  Its latest victims and champions can be found in Italy, where the city of Genoa was supposed to be rewarded for its long ties to some small religion (it apparently involves worshiping an old kook in a big pointy hat) by facing off with the greatest of ...

Sr. Joan Chittister has some wonderful insights into the impending visitation of American Women Religious by Rome. There was hardly a place where there were the new poor, sick or suffering that sisters were not there with them. And all the while they went on "giving their lives to God" in prayer and...

Surely, I thought, this must be a joke as I read a news headline saying that the word “nun” has been dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. But it’s no joke. Lisa Saunders, a mom in Ireland, discovered that the new edition of the dictionary had dropped a bunch of words. Upon cl...

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February 2nd is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. It is also the day in which the Church celebrates in a particular way the gift of consecrated life in the Church. It is a day to reflect on the fact and gift of the consecrated life, as it is given in the particular circumstances of this day...

Last week in Washington, DC, I met a nun who is not Roman Catholic. She’s Maronite Catholic. She is the founder of an order of sisters called the Maronite Sisters of Christ the Light. Her order is the first Maronite order of women that has its base and mission in the United States. All other M...

  "Yeah, I must've been really horny," she said. "The sex is getting better." Salma Hayek is much cooler than you think. In addition to being the best celebrity cameo on this season's 30 Rock, there's a lot to love about her: for one thing, she was expelled from ...

For those of you who remember the Hello Kitty nun (yeah, I know you really didn’t need to be reminded about that, especially if you had somehow managed to get that image out of your mind, but it gives you a tiny sample of what it’s like to live in Hello Kitty Hell) and imagined it would ...