The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with ...

Earlier this month, the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland commemorated 175 years of impact on the Northeast Ohio community. The ...

After 14 years of tenacious research, Williams – a history professor at the University of Dayton -- arguably now knows more about America's Black nuns than anyone in the world. Her comprehensive and ...

At least seven nuns died and many became severely ill as they nursed the Irish and found homes for the 1,500 orphans. At least 6,000 Irish people lost their lives. When the coffin ships from Ireland ...

Philadelphia — It was afternoon at the convent, and that meant bingo. A dozen elderly women, some in wheelchairs, others with their walkers pushed aside, studied the triplets of cards in front of them ...

From 1975: The Spokesman-Review’s Sunday Magazine asked the question: Will Spokane’s private schools survive? This question may have been prompted by the recent closure of Holy Names Academy, but it ...

If you know, you know. Tucked away in Madrid is a centuries-old culinary secret: cookies baked by cloistered nuns. Their ...

A 19th-century bookcase, a mahogany table and a cedar chest that once belonged to a pioneer Tucson merchandising family are among furniture that nuns in the Midtown Benedictine Monastery are preparing ...