Leadership Conference of Women Religious

ROME — Pope Francis has backed the Vatican's doctrinal crackdown on a major group of American nuns, reasserting the Roman Catholic Church's conservative approach to various social issues in a move that could cool the warm reception he has received...

The selection of a new pope has put attention back on the Vatican, and television is responding. Showtime on Friday announced the selection of a pope for “The Vatican,” a new series from Ridley Scott (“Gladiator,” “The Good...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — On Thursday Pope Benedict XVI transferred a high-ranking Holy See official to Indianapolis for ruffling feathers at the Vatican by openly seeking to mend its frayed ties with U.S. nuns. Archbishop Joseph Tobin, an American...

"You didn't really have (to) think much for yourself," a nun says of her early years, in the new documentary "Band of Sisters," which has its world premiere at the Siskel Film Center this week. "All that went unchanged for years and years and years...

About 500 people turned out Sunday to march in support of Catholic nuns amid a crackdown from the Vatican for alleged radical feminism.  The marchers went from Capitol Hill to St. James Cathedral, where archbishop Peter J. Sartain presides. Sartain was...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — At a pivotal national meeting, members of the largest group of U.S. nuns are weighing whether to accept or challenge a Vatican decision to assign control of the group to a trio of bishops after the Vatican concluded the nuns had...

I recently completed reading an article in the July 2 issue of Time magazine, a profile of Sister Simone Campbell and membership of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. I want to commend her for her fortitude. In my opinion, the nuns of the...

New York Times reporter Laurie Goodstein writes about the American nuns chastised by the Vatican for disobedience. The group meets this week in St. Louis: American nuns are preparing to assemble in St. Louis for a pivotal meeting at which they will try to...