Maryanne Braverman joined a New York-based convent just after graduating high school, at age 17. She was a nun for 10 years and committed for life by taking her final vows. Eventually, however, she ...

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 29 - A convent of Italian nuns has set up a course of self-defence for women fearing gender attacks. The initiative by the Maria Ausiliatrice Institute at Bibbiano near Reggio Emila ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

A coalition of American nuns is calling for consumers to boycott a company that offers dolls dressed in the habits of various Roman Catholic orders, calling the venture an exploitation of women.

Police in Croatia say a nun who claimed she was stabbed by a migrant fabricated the story. The announcement followed several ...

TANNERSVILLE, Pa. — Police say two women dressed as nuns attempted to rob a bank in Pennsylvania's Poconos. Authorities say the women walked into Citizens Bank near Tannersville on Monday and one ...

I was 7 when I first watched "The Sound of Music," and it left me with the impression that a nun's vocation involved sabotaging Nazi vehicles and belting out show tunes. For a few months afterward, I ...

ROME — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

ROME — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...