Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood. Growing up a cradle Catholic in ...

For those who don't know what a motherhouse is, Sister Aloysius says it's like a house that is the headquarters where all the sisters from around the world can come back and call it their home.

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1% of nuns in ...

(The SS Wilfred Sykes is still in operation). A new motherhouse and novitiate of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of the Congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes will be built in ...

Fewer than 1% of nuns in the U.S. today are under 30. Those who do enter into a religious vocation give up many trappings of ...

Francis, died at 5:34 p.m. on Friday, December 20, 2024, at the Motherhouse in East Peoria, IL. She was born on May 11, 1935, in Marquette, Michigan, to Arthur and Dorothy Tousignant. Sister ...

In early August, Zoey joined the order as a postulant. She waved from the steps of the motherhouse as her parents drove down the winding driveway, her mother waving back from the sunroof of their car.

And if not, I was free to go,” Adzokpa said. Nearly three years later, in August, her family returned to the motherhouse to watch her make temporary vows. Just behind the motherhouse sits St.

Sister Mary Gemma Harris, right, leads a class for novices at the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, in Toronto, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to ...