I’m wedged in the back of a Toyota Corolla on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, next to Sister Honorata, an 83-year-old, five-foot-tall, extremely plump nun. We’re headed to a small town a few hours ...

Catholic leaders say the nuns can remain at the Austrian convent but must return to a “cloistered monastic life” away from ...

Sr Rose Catherine Wakibiru is a nun with the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi. She shares on what it takes to become a nun, why some nuns drop out and what they do to remain chaste and overcome ...

In Cáceres, Spain, the fairytale city where much of House of Dragons was filmed, a sweet secret lies behind the hidden windows of three convents. Inside, cloistered nuns make cookies and sell them to ...

No money, no partner and no flexibility in the daily routine: many people couldn't imagine living in a convent , but Sister Helena sees it as a little slice of heaven. Trump Signals Major Shift on ...

Gina Phillips climbs to the top of the levee in a quiet stretch of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward overlooking the Industrial Canal. She raises her arm to point out the bank of “The End of the World,” as ...

In her new memoir, Breda O’Toole uses her own experience to give an unflinching look at mental health treatment in Ireland across several decades. Using 23 years worth of psychiatric records, she ...

Ana Nycole Gomes spent her teenage years training to be a nun – until one offhand comment completely changed the trajectory of her life. The 24-year-old gave up a life in the convent to teach yoga on ...

CONVENT life to some people seems cold and austere, and they see no reason for its existence. They seek no information from reliable sources either because they are not interested or because they ...