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FaithNews
Dawn Araujo-Hawkins - Catholic News Service
Almost 30 years ago, congregations of Catholic sisters in the United States split into two groups: the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and a newly-formed group that would become the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious.
Nun kneeling on stage
Arts & CultureMusic
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Originally written by Georges Bernanos, the “Dialogues of the Carmelites” was turned into an opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc.
FaithFaith in Focus
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.
Pope Francis greets a nun during a meeting with 850 superiors general on May 10, 2019, at the Vatican, who were in Rome for the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“In regard to the diaconate we must see what was there at the beginning of revelation, if there was something, let it grow and it arrives, but if there was not, if the Lord didn’t want a sacramental ministry for women, it can’t go forward.”
FaithNews
Chaz Muth - Catholic News Service
When the elderly men and women at the Jeanne Jugan Residence for senior care pray the rosary with Sister Constance Veit, they see her as more than one of the caregivers at the facility.
Looking at Women Church World, a monthly women's magazine insert in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters) 
FaithNews Analysis
Colleen Dulle
Ms. Scaraffia described the spaces women have carved out for themselves to speak freely as “a hidden schism in the church, where the religious are separating themselves from the church.”