Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but ...

Catherine Coldstream spoke with Terry Gross about her years as nun in a Carmelite monastery. She talks about what drew her to the vocation, what it was like to live a silent and obedient life, and why ...

Lais Dognini met the love of her life, Jackson, at a convent, but neither of them knew they would one day end up together As time passed, the two independently left their religious callings, only to ...

I find comfort in the routines in life, especially when so much of life seems so uncertain and capricious. For almost a decade, I went running along the same route each day and encountered many of the ...

THE CALLED AND THE CHOSEN (306 pp.) −Monica Baldwin−Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.95). Monica Baldwin is an ex-nun. The cousin of England’s onetime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a ...

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