America's nun population in steep decline - ABC News
Jul 27, 2022 · In 2022, there were reportedly fewer than 42,000 nuns in America, which is a 76% decline over 50 years. At the rate sisters are disappearing, one estimate said that there will be fewer than 1,000 ...
Texas nuns dismissed from religious life - Catholic News Agency
Oct 29, 2024 · A group of Texas nuns has been dismissed from religious life after a lengthy feud with their bishop over the governance of their monastery.
Travelers congregate in rural Missouri community to see nun’s body
May 26, 2023 · CNN — Hundreds of people have traveled to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Monastery, in rural Missouri to view a nun’s body which appears to show no signs of decay approximately four...
Vatican complains after French court rules in favor of nun …
Apr 13, 2024 · The Holy See has formally protested to France after a court there ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order.
Vatican reinstates Carmelite nun after bishop ... - Catholic News Agency
May 23, 2024 · The Holy See has reinstated a Carmelite mother superior nearly a year after the bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, dismissed her after alleged inappropriate conduct with a priest.
Thousands flock to Missouri to see exhumed body of nun who ... - CBS News
May 29, 2023 · Thousands flocked to a small Missouri town over the weekend to see the exhumed body of a nun who has barely decomposed since she died in 2019. Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, 95, was exhumed in...
A Miracle in Missouri? The Nun Who Put Her Abbey on the Map.
Sep 9, 2023 · A biography published by her order after her death at age 95 in 2019 described her as the little nun “who persevered in faith.” In death, Sister Wilhelmina has become something much larger...
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RNS | Covering the world of religion. - Religion News Service
May 23, 2024. (RNS) — The Vatican has overturned a Texas bishop’s dismissal of a Carmelite nun from her order after she was accused of breaking her vow of chastity with a priest, weighing in on a...
Sister Wilhelmina’s body placed in glass case ... - Catholic News Agency
May 29, 2023 · The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, an African American nun whose surprisingly intact remains have created a sensation at a remote Missouri abbey, was placed inside a glass display case...