In 1888, a Post-Dispatch article highlighted the work of several of the Catholic orders in St. Louis: ...

A century ago, tuberculosis patients slept on the outdoor porches of Marian Hall in downtown Santa Fe, hoping New Mexico’s dry air would cure their deadly disease. Some were lucky and went away healed ...

IRVING, Texas, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (IRVING, Texas) - CHRISTUS Health, a faith-based, not-for-profit global health system, announced today it has again earned the prestigious "Great ...

Plus, cloistered Illinois sisters adopt solar energy; an Indian court denies bail for a nun facing arrest after she was accused of conversion; services held for slain Haitian sisters.

Community members held a press conference Thursday morning, thanking the city of Leavenworth for filing a lawsuit against ...

CHRISTUS Health, an international not-for-profit health system, broke ground today on a new, state-of-the-art hospital in ...

The world is mourning the death of Pope Francis. Catholics around the world are remembering his work with the poor and ...

Sister Gemma del Duca, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa., is pictured in a file ...

Soon after this, an order of nuns known as the Irish Sisters of Charity cared for the terminally ill. They started a hospice in Ireland in 1879. In 1885, the Sisters of Charity expanded their work ...

The nuns are unsure how many women they have helped at St. Euphrasia's Safe Home, but a senior worker there said at least 25 ...

Bernardette after the apparitions Bernadette joined the order of the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her life she remained sickly, but attended patiently to her duties as infirmarian and sacristan.

Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa ...