Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maryanne Braverman joined a New York-based convent just after graduating high school, at age 17. She was a nun for 10 years and ...

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 ...

THE HIGHLANDS, Scotland (Reuters) -It is exciting to be here in these times, says Sister Mary Gianna, a 41-year-old nun from the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, who teaches children and adults in ...