A few months after getting her gun and badge she was involved in a stand-off at the Wounded Knee Indian Reservation, South Dakota Joanne Pierce Misko, who has died aged 83, was a nun who in 1972 ...

PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood. In 2021 just after ...

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1% of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has remained ...

But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three and “took a leap of faith,” revealing to them that she wanted to become a nun. And ...