COMMENTARY: In a time of prejudice and social tension, a single afternoon with a group of Franciscan sisters offered an unexpected lesson in the things that truly endure. Two religious sisters wade ...

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This week, Rihanna stunned in a new cover shoot for Interview magazine that challenged much about what we know and expect of the traditional image of a nun. The suggestive, lacquer-lipped cover landed ...

“My secret, my great secret, is to pray,” said Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest nun in the world at 115 years of age. “I pray the rosary every day for all the people around the world.” The ...

They abandoned their relationships, jobs and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn from the nuns of today? Anna Cafolla finds out The bus drove off, taking with ...

The bus drove off, taking with it Laura Cullen’s old life. Left on the seat of the Lanzarote airport shuttle, her phone contained photos of that last girls’ trip, a week spent with her best friend ...

Three elderly Austrian nuns recently fled a nursing home and broke into their former convent. They have rejected an offer to stay in convent if they promise to get off of social media.

I was 7 when I first watched "The Sound of Music," and it left me with the impression that a nun's vocation involved sabotaging Nazi vehicles and belting out show tunes. For a few months afterward, I ...

Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson has been at the center of a bitter fight with a group of Arlington nuns for the past year over allegations that the reverend mother violated her vow of chastity.

The Poor Clares of Belorado, in northern Spain, are digging in their heels in a battle of wills over real estate with the Catholic Church. By Rachel Chaundler One afternoon this past summer, a car ...