Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sister Rosa, born Ngoc Hong Thi Pham in Vietnam, says the children she teaches at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy in New ...

Nuns as teachers are historically associated with anything but progress. Often stereotyped as exactors of cruel discipline, nuns in the classroomv are thought of as wielding rulers – and worse – ready ...

Students at Blessed Sacrament School sometimes question Erie Benedictine Sister Katherine Horan and Sister of St. Joseph Linda Fusco about their lives as Catholic nuns. The students have asked if they ...

When students walk into St. Vincent Pallotti Preparatory High School in Laurel, the words “The love of Christ impels us” painted on a wall just inside the main entrance greet them — the motto of the ...

Should nuns be allowed to teach in public schools? All North Dakota had been seething over the question, though newspapers and radio stations had barely mentioned it, for fear of aggravating religious ...

Catholic priests and nuns have been teaching in New Mexico ever since the 19th Century days of jolly Father Martinez,† who taught reading, writing and the catechism to New Mexican schoolchildren, ...