Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi ...

Modern-day nuns are often thought of as out of touch with the rest of society, but this is untrue, according to Bernadette McCauley, associate professor of history at Hunter College of the City ...

The Immaculate Heart Sisters of Mary (IHMs) has a long history of pushing back on Catholic church norms and many of those ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It’s a modern idea, coming from an order of nuns that was founded in 1842. Henriette Delille, a free woman of color in pre-Civil War New Orleans, started the Sisters of the Holy ...

After 14 years of tenacious research, Williams – a history professor at the University of Dayton -- arguably now knows more about America's Black nuns than anyone in the world. Her comprehensive and ...