This nun makes a habit of keeping life fun. Sister Monica Clare is still surprised when outsiders don’t believe how superiorly hip it is inside the convent, like one who thought nuns were ...

MANILA, Philippines — They wore habits before the tiara ... The last pope from a religious order before Francis. Reactionary and anti-modern, he condemned railways as “roads to hell ...

At “Teach us to be at peace with what we have,” Jennie sighed and repositioned herself on the plush gray cot, the rare modern ... one nun wore a hoodie over her habit; another wore Crocs.

Laura is wearing a white scapular and habit, traditional nun’s garments ... which seems so out of step with the modern world? I sought out nuns with degrees, dating histories, now-dormant ...

Laura is wearing a white scapular and habit, traditional nun’s garments ... which seems so out of step with the modern world? I sought out nuns with degrees, dating histories, now-dormant group chats ...

But beyond what we all know, let us look into how a simple act of washing hands went from medieval neglect to an essential practice in modern medicine and lifestyle ... used water symbolically before ...

Nuns’ diverse experiences of monastic solitude reflect modern urban loneliness. In 1812 Lord Byron expressed the contradictory nature of loneliness in the poem Childe Harold, juxtaposing the positive ...

That’s part of the reason this is one of the modern habits boomers quietly think are making us soft. They’d prefer to keep slang, conversations, and discussions about mental health personal ...

But were isolated monks, nuns and hermits also lonely, as we would understand the word today? And do early modern nuns offer solutions for our own loneliness epidemic? Early Christian religious ...