a priest and two nuns and two gardaí came and took me from my mum’s arms. I was told she ran after the ambulance”. Ms McCarthy O’Brien describes Mount St Vincent Industrial school "as a ...

Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella of Long Island, N.Y., is the world's oldest nun at 112 years old. Sister Francis, who has ...

Dozens of members of the Irish community and community leaders walked 2.1 kilometres on Sunday to remember and honour the 6,000 Irish immigrants who died of typhus during the summer of 1847 and are ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond the new pope.

From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, history’s first American pope recalled that he was an Augustinian priest ... last day in school.” Sister Bernadette, a 50-year-old nun from Houston ...

Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella, a nun from Long Island, has become the world's oldest nun following the death of a ...

Nuns’ diverse experiences of monastic solitude reflect modern urban loneliness. In 1812 Lord Byron expressed the contradictory nature of loneliness in the poem Childe Harold, juxtaposing the positive ...

Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic had been passed on orally ...

Indian residential schools operated across Canada for almost 150 years. Their purpose: the total assimilation of Indigenous children into settler society. The Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme ...

religious superiors and their priest subjects whom they delegate, in their own churches and oratories and in churches of nuns who are under their spiritual care. * N.B. Rule No. 5 with its five ...