When Mom first arrived at the convent, the sisters simply saw a sickly child ... part of herself that has been missing for decades — life-changing for her, but also for me.

A procession of nuns—permitted to leave their convent for a day and visit a Franciscan ... “Exercise is important in all stages of life,” she told me. “It’s a way to keep your body ...

After spending much of her adult life as a nun, Draveil made the brave decision ... to guilt and heeded her mother's request.

Sister Catherine firmly believes in the life she has chosen ... of Our Lady of Walsingham The convent's chapel used to be a bedroom She met "some really joyful sisters" and says that, through ...

Sister Mary Joseph lived the first sixty years of her life ... kind of nun," says Mark. "She didn't sing very well, she was frequently late to her required duties around the convent and she ...

Luckily, the nuns I lived with already shared a dramatic sensibility ... and a Q&A where viewers can ask their most pressing questions about Indonesian convent life, performing other people’s words, ...

I have a fantasy of staying somewhere like the abbey in The Sound of Music. But my last-minute monastery stay reminds me of ...

The first time Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa felt pulled toward religious life was walking in a Texas Walmart, at the age of 25, with her mother. Born in Ghana, Adzokpa had never encountered a nun.

The Baldwin resident turned 100 last October, and she is one of the few remaining centenarian survivors still living to ...