Historic Hook Head lighthouse run poses its own challenges. The run to the oldest operating lighthouse in the World is almost ...

Despite the seeming impossibility of getting lost on a loop walk, we had managed it. Having emerged at the wrong car park, we ...

The solemn monastic profession of Sister Beatrice Brady, took place at St Mary's Abbey, Glencairn, County Waterford on Saturday, 11 July 2026. The profession was presided by Dom Michael Ryan, Abbot of ...

There are a few places lately that nuns have been showing up and surprising us all. Like the “Spurs Nuns,” who would be at the NBA team’s playoff and Finals games wearing jerseys and praying for the ...

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Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Sunday. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images) To care for the dying poor: That was the mission Rose Hawthorne Lathrop had in mind when she established a congregation of ...

A century on from his execution, Roger Casement, the Irish patriot's ties to a quiet Wicklow churchyard, in Ireland, reveal a ...

The Justice Department is backing a group of Catholic nuns who say New York’s transgender policies could force them to choose between their religious beliefs and continuing to care for indigent cancer ...

Nuns as teachers are historically associated with anything but progress. Often stereotyped as exactors of cruel discipline, nuns in the classroomv are thought of as wielding rulers – and worse – ready ...

The inquiry will investigate issues raised in the Truth Recovery Independent Report, which was also published this week.

Seven women belonging to a schismatic group of nuns could face up to 12 years in prison for the mistreatment of five sisters aged between 87 and 101, who were under their care. The Belorado nuns left ...

A Catholic nun who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while walking to Sunday Mass in South Texas has been released after intervention from members of Congress, ...