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Scott, many thanks for your column on “The Apopka Nuns” this morning. [“In their 80s, Apopka nuns still fight for justice“] It is so good to be reminded that there are still people out there fighting ...

(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...

No marriage is exempt from some level of strife, including the ones between Catholic nuns and the Big J.C. himself. Hollywood has long mined nunneries for drama (and horror and comedy), and that’s ...

Sept. 22 (UPI) --A Catholic nun in Ohio celebrated her 105th birthday by hitting the links for a round of golf with the sisters from her convent. Sister René Parman and her cohorts from Humility of ...

Since early September, three elderly nuns have been making international headlines and gaining followers on Instagram after fleeing their nursing home and returning to their convent in Austria. Sister ...

Three octogenarian nuns have defied their diocese, run away from their nursing home and returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, which they are now occupying. On September 4, Sister ...

It might have a strange name, but this Querétaro treat is more than worth trying. (Picale) The sweet smell of chocolate surrounded me as I stood in a Querétaro street. Trying to believe what I was ...

More than half a century ago, the Catholic diocese dispatched four nuns to fast-growing Central Florida with a simple charge: Find those in need, those who don’t have many other allies, and help them.