When I was a nun in Rome, I sometimes visited the prison where Pope Francis will wash the feet of 12 young inmates. In those days, I wore a white sari as one of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.

In 1980, I helped prepare 12 indigent men...

This week marks the fifteenth anniversaries of the tragic deaths, just six days apart, of two twentieth century icons, beloved women who first met at my house.

Some might expect that from my perspective -- that of an ex-nun who spent twenty years in Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity...

At the end of this month, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will meet to formulate a response to a Vatican trap whose cunning is best appreciated within the long tradition of religious authorities who craft impossible dilemmas for those they perceive as threats.

Two millennia ago, the chief priests...

American Catholic bishops have recently complained that mandatory contraception coverage and marriage equality violate the religious liberty of Catholics. Yet in a document from the Vatican last week, the bishops seek to curtail the religious liberty of some of the Church's most dedicated members, American women religious, more commonly known...