Pope Francis has issued a new wide-ranging set of guidelines for how the tens of thousands of Catholic women religious living in contemplative communities around the world should regulate their ...

Building on his lifelong love of comic books, an Eastern Catholic monk has authored a short graphic novel, "The Truth is Out There," to help explain the truths of the faith in an understandable way.

The Vatican today published Pope Francis’ new apostolic constitution on women’s contemplative life, Vultum Dei quaerere (Seeking the Face of God). The document, signed on the feast of Sts. Peter and ...

It's been one year since fighting broke out in Ukraine. The death toll has surpassed 6,000. Almost 1 million people have been displaced. And a February ceasefire agreement with Russia has created only ...

At first glance, it's easy to picture John Michael Talbot mingling seamlessly among the biblical prophets of old. He sports a near-belly-length beard, long salt-and-pepper locks and a brown robe with ...

The Sisters of Mary Morning Star is a contemplative Catholic order of nuns located near Waco, about 40 minutes from the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit prison in Gatesville. Sister Pia Maria, third from left ...

Sister Barbara Jean LaRochester is a Carmelite nun in Baltimore, where she's been a Catholic sister since 1972. Previously, she spent 17 years in Philadelphia as an active nun working in a Catholic ...