What These Nuns in Ukraine War Zone Are Doing to Protect Refugees and Themselves
April 22, 2022Currents News Staff When the invasion of Ukraine first began, Currents News spoke to a nun who just narrowly escaped the capital […]
Topic: Religious Life
New Book Points to Need for Racial Reckoning in Women’s Religious Orders
April 14, 2022By Currents News Staff and Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Shannen Dee Williams describes her upcoming book about Black Catholic sisters as […]
Meet Father J: The Bronx ‘City Kid’ Who Will Become The Youngest Auxiliary Bishop in the Country
February 16, 2022Currents News Staff Father Joseph Espaillat, or “Father J” as he’s called, has been named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of […]
Women Religious Answer Call to Serve During 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
April 17, 2020By Franca Braatz and Michelle Powers The Spanish influenza was an undetected killer sweeping the globe as the world was in the […]
Pope Speaks With U.S. Bishops Ahead of Amazon Synod Document
February 11, 2020By Emily Drooby ROME (CNS) — Talking about debates, differences and discernment, Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops that people […]
A Look at Pope Francis’s Document on the Amazon Synod
February 11, 2020Currents News Staff Pope Francis is about to share his decisions on what he wants to happen after the Amazon summit. The […]
A Little Sister of the Poor Turns 100
February 5, 2020By Jessica Easthope and Allyson Escobar QUEENS VILLAGE — Call it the century-long luck of the Irish: Sister Mary Monica, L.S.P., a […]
Three Decades of Service in Rural India
February 3, 2020By Melissa Butz Sister Crescensia Sun is a missionary sister who works in healthcare in India. The Sisters of Our Lady of […]
Written From the Heart: Nun Publishes Books Focused on God’s Love
January 8, 2020By Tim Harfmann Inside the living room of her Bayside, Queens home, Sister Ave Clark is a nun with a notepad who […]
Pope to Make Final Decision on Married Clergy, Women Deacons Following Amazon Synod
October 28, 2019By Melissa Butz The Amazon summit is over, but there’s still controversy. The bishops at the Synod voted overwhelmingly to recommend that […]