VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See's crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mirrored the nuns' own social outreach w... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The election of a Jesuit pope devoted to the poor and stressing a message of mercy rather than condemnation has brought a glimmer of hope to American nuns who have been the subject of a Vatican crackdown, according to interviews w... [Full Article]
It is a hot, cloudless morning on a hillside on the outskirts of Kathmandu and dozens of nuns arrange themselves into lines around a golden Buddhist shrine. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
(AP) - Revelers dressed as nuns parade with Sao Clemente samba school during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)... [Full Article]
(AP) - Nuns wait for the start of a Sunday morning mass at the Catedral Nuestra Senora del Pilar, or Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pilar, in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Nuns read prayers during a Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem early December 25, 2011. REUTERS/ Majdi Mohammed/Pool (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION)... [Full Article]
(AP) - In this Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 photo, nuns in the Abbey of Regina Laudis participate in two of their seven daily prayers in their monastery in Bethlehem, Conn. Mother Dolores, a cloistered nun whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Orthodox nuns acknowledge a priest during a ceremony bidding farewell to the old year in Kiev December 23, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer (UKRAINE - Tags: RELIGION ANNIVERSARY)... [Full Article]
(AP) - Christian nuns take their photos next to a large Christmas tree after it was lit at Manger Square, outside the Church of the Nativity in West Bank town of Bethlehem,Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)... [Full Article]
(AP) - Myanmarese children pray along with Buddhist nuns at lthe andmark Shwedagon Pagoda in early morning Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)... [Full Article]