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50th anniversary celebration of Seton canonization highlights new 'Saints on Their Way'

As the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton marked the 50th anniversary of the 1975 canonization of its namesake on Sept. 14, the Emmitsburg, Maryland, campus hosted what was dubbed "A Day of Joy" as part of a three-day celebration attracting over 3,000 visitors.

Sr. Ruth Kuyumba, right, engages Memory Musonda and her son Joshua in a conversation during a home visit. Sr. Agnes Kateule, left, uses sign language to communicate with Joshua. Memory and Joshua were beneficiaries of the recently defunded Inclusive Family Strengthening project, formerly managed by the Sisters of Mercy with support from Catholic Relief Services. (Derrick Silimina)

Inclusive Family Strengthening project, now defunded, bolstered women in Zambia

By Derrick Silimina
Augustinian Sisters Regina, 86; Rita, 81; and Bernadette, 88, sit on a bench at their old convent in Goldenstein castle in Elsbethen, Austria, near Salzburg Sept. 12. They refuse to return to their retirement home. (OSV News/Reuters/Angelika Warmuth)

'Nuns on the run' case in Austria highlights plight of aging, dwindling religious

By Gina Christian, OSV News
Sr. Chioma Ahanihu takes notes March 27, 2025, in Mexico City at the start of a gathering for sisters involved in data collection. Ahanihu is director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. (GSR photo/Rhina Guidos)

Q&A with Sr. Chioma Ahanihu, whose past led her toward research of 'global migrant sisters'

By Rhina Guidos

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Kenya nuns condemn assault by sister captured on viral video

Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph called the incident "regrettable," as church law experts weigh possible penalties and fellow sisters urge compassion.

ByDoreen Ajiambo

Beatification cause for Minnesota Benedictine sister opens

ByOSV News

Q&A with Sr. Josefina Cattaneo, the Argentine nun evangelizing as a TikTok superstar

With hundreds of thousands of followers across TikTok and Instagram, Sr. Josefina Cattaneo from Argentina has wielded social media as a tool for evangelizing.

ByRhina Guidos
Bethany Sr. Bhagya Thalichirayil interacts with "Didi" (red), a senior resident, and Sujatha (left), the youngest resident of Asha Bhavan, a home for disabled and abandoned women at Ichilampady, a village in Karnataka state, southwestern India. (Thomas Scaria)

India's disabled, abandoned women find hope among these Eastern Catholic nuns

The Bethany sisters run 29 centers for disabled and abandoned women across India. At Asha Bhavan, the sisters give these women the care, community and dignity they need.

ByThomas Scaria
The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary administer and raise funding for the Inclusive Development Program, which spearheads environmental protection and climate change mitigation in Zambia. (Courtesy of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary)

Zambian sisters lament funding hit to African climate programs after USAID shutdown

As climate change resilience programs struggle for funding, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Sr. Yvonne Nwila worries that the poor in Zambia will suffer more from climate-change-induced food insecurity.

ByTawanda Karombo
A memorial is seen July 7 in Tuam, Ireland, where an excavation is underway for the remains of 796 babies at the site of a former mother-and-baby home run on behalf of the Irish government by the Catholic Sisters of Bon Secours. The home closed its doors in 1961. (OSV News/Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne)

Search of mass grave begins at site of closed Irish Catholic home for children

"The mentality," according to what Catherine Corless has heard people say, was "that these children were 'the sin of the mother.'

BySarah Mac Donald
The United Nations General Assembly building in New York City is seen Sept. 8, 2025, a day before the opening of the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly. (OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz)

As UN prepares to meet, gaps in sustainable development goals continue

Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, representatives and activists — including Catholic sisters — assessed the progress and shortcomings of the U.N.'s goals for 2030. 

ByChris Herlinger
From left, Scalabrinian Sr. Carla Luisa Frey Bamberg, Christopher Joseph and Blessed Bucon, colleagues from the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, after a workshop in Luanda, Angola (Courtesy of Carla Luisa Frey Bamberg)

Q&A with Sr. Carla Luisa Frey Bamberg, tackling human trafficking in Angola

Scalabrinian Sr. Carla Luisa Frey Bamberg is on the front lines of Africa's trafficking crisis, as leader of the Angolan church's Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.

ByMarko Phiri

From Final Four fame to 106: Sr. Jean still cheering Loyola on

ByOSV News

Nigerian Catholic nuns fight climate change with faith, farming and trees

ByJohn Chukwu

Monday Starter: In the wake of shootings, US sisters say, 'We must act'

ByChris Herlinger

Q&A with Sr. Seby Thomas on expressing social challenges through short films

ByLissy Maruthanakuzhy

Q&A with Sr. Blanca Meza: 'Why do we see so few Black people in religious life?'

ByRhina Guidos

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