For the most part, these are grim days for ... With their long habits and disciplined regime, these conservative sisters are, it seems, the new radical.

One wore a shower curtain as part of a makeshift nun’s habit and held a rubber chicken. The other wore a nun's head-covering fashioned in part out of a stuffed bra. They are part of the Sisters ...

In the case of nuns’ habits, that system relies on a standardized combination of symbolic elements. “It’s really a kit of parts,” says Lucienne Roberts, cofounder of GraphicDesign&, a ...

Mary Christa, who also runs the U.S. bishops’ visitor’s office in Rome with several other Sisters of Mercy, called the habit of a religious sister an important part of being a witness.

There were lederhosen and dirndls aplenty but the beaming winner, dressed head to foot in black habit with regulation flash of white, was every inch the nun. So why the scream? Because our host ...