Two religious sisters serving in the Arlington diocese were honored for a combined 115 years of religious life at a special Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington Feb. 21.

Dressed in brown robes, black veils and sandals, two women lay facedown in front of the altar at Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic Church on Sunday as the people in the pews recited the litany of ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to strike the Chicago area in March, a Batavia woman found herself stuck at home, deemed vulnerable to the virus as a 61-year-old with asthma and diabetes. But she ...

On the morning of June 6, hundreds of people packed the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York City to celebrate a quadruple wedding; but instead of white, the four brides wore black and gray.

Mother Rosemae Pender, the founder of the Meriden-based Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, suffered a heart attack and died during a mass to celebrate her 75th Jubilee of vows. The mass was at the ...

Six members of the Sisters of Saint Francis, in Rochester, will celebrate their Golden Jubilee Anniversaries for 50 years of service on Aug. 11. • Sister Bernadette M. Novack, formerly Sister Mary ...

A former bone-crushing fullback in a women’s professional league is set to take her final vows in Ohio later this month to become a Franciscan nun. Sister Rita Clare Yoches was known as Anne Yoches ...

Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan presence in the large Indonesian island of Sumatra is lively, dynamic and flourishing even in a mainly Muslim society where life is difficult for Christians ...

NEW YORK — On the morning of June 6, hundreds of people packed the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York City to celebrate a quadruple wedding; but instead of white, the four brides wore ...