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 ...

PÁTZCUARO, MEXICO — Atop the highest hill in this lakeside town sits the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Salud, built in the 1500s with whitewashed walls and red stone columns. On a street around the ...

Nun Maria de Jesus Frayle, 24, holds a tray with fried Christmas figures at the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament convent in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. It's the fortnight ...

"Sister Act" is as brash, flashy and obvious as its heroine - which may sound either irresistible or irritating, depending on one's taste. Fortunately, both the show and its protagonist aren't that ...

Sister Rita (L), Sister Regina (C) and Sister Bernadette were sent to a care home against their will in 2023 [BBC] Three Austrian nuns in their 80s have run away from the old people's home where they ...

SALZBURG, Austria — Morning Mass is underway at the chapel of Schloss Goldenstein, a convent in Elsbethen, an Austrian parish nestled between the church spires of Salzburg and the arresting backdrop ...

(RNS) — When Martha Buser joined the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, Kentucky, at 18 years old in 1949, she was among a group of 600 young women preparing to dedicate their lives to God. But today, ...

EASTCHESTER – Inside a former convent behind the Immaculate Conception Church, a new 10-unit apartment building now serves as a home for adults with autism. The St. Frances Cabrini Apartments at 2 ...