Third, the older feminist scholarship that tended to characterize the convent as either 'good' or 'bad' for women 鈥 that is, either less subject to patriarchal maneuverings than the outside world, or more so 鈥 is being complicated by more subtle approaches that take nuns' spirituality ...
In the Old Babylonian period we find instead a plethora of other women devoted to religion. Most conspicuous are those who lived as a group in convents, each in her own house. Such a woman was called in Sumerian a lukur, Akkadian nadîtu, for which we shall use the term ‘nun’. ...
with just over one in ten (11 percent) in their thirties and less than a fifth (18.3 per cent) in their forties.The report by the Council for Research and Development at the Irish BishopsConference says the age profile of diocesan priests is becoming older whencompared with the population ...
A Good Shepherd Sister is a member of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, a Roman Catholic order of nuns devoted to helping people in poor and marginalized communities, especially girls and women. The order comprises both aposto