The 88-year-old pontiff is now able to spend some time during the day off high flows of oxygen and use just ordinary ...

The Vatican’s central number is public — and the sisters of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master make sure all who call ...

The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls while the pope is in the hospital.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the ...

A study published by UT Health San Antonio showed more than 30 years of aging and dementia patterns in nuns. In a statement, officials said their study analyzed patterns in dementia and aging from 678 ...

While we wait to find out, we have a drip feed of building anticipation thanks to the regular announcements rolling in about which artists will be representing their country at the art world ...

She continued that work for almost three decades, but national instability and governmental anticlericalism around the time of the First World War resulted in the nuns losing their school.

Soon after, Parker had five nuns visit her through the bars of her cell. “There was a heavy atmosphere of pain,” Sister Lydia Maria recalled. “We told her that we came from Waco to pray with ...