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.

But there is one headline-grabbing news story it failed to mention – which would no doubt have brought some blushes to the nuns of Nonnatus House. For Dame Vanessa Redgrave, who narrates the ...

The foot is a complex structure made up of 28 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles, over 100 tendons and ligaments, and more than 200,000 different nerve endings. These work together to allow you to walk, run ...

When the last two Sisters of Mercy remaining in Columbus retired this month, 162 years of nuns serving this community came to a close. It’s part of a national trend. The number of nuns ...

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. — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant.

A trailblazing former Catholic nun from New York who became one of the first women sworn in as an FBI special agent died last week at the age of 83. Joanne Pierce Misko — dubbed the “Nun with ...

She made history as one of the FBI’s first women special agents, and her religious calling earned her the nickname “Nun With a Gun.” Breaking News Intern Breaking News Intern Got a tip?

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 ...

7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) Growing up a cradle Catholic in Pennsylvania, Zoey Stapleton was surrounded by older nuns. It wasn’t until she met a group of young sisters in Ohio that she ...

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 ...