Craig A. Monson's Habitual Offenders provides a third installment to his previous Nuns Behaving Badly (2010) and Divas in the Convent (1995; 2012), both examinations of transgressive nuns in seventeenth-century Italy. Habitual Offenders focuses on a single murder case in Bologna, in which two ...
Coming from a Christian community myself – I am a member of theBruderhof– I wanted to learn more about this vibrant fellowship of women, and asked the Sisters for an interview. And so on a frosty November morning, Sister Veronica welcomed me into the Sisters of Life convent in Yonkers, ...
"One of my first months at the convent, I met this 95-year-old woman who was in a wheelchair totally hunched over, who you would imagine couldn't participate in anything," Corwin said. "I asked her what she does with her days, and she said, 'I serve the infirm and visit the ...
In many Tibetan areas, becoming a nun by choice or sending a daughter to the convent was not something as systematic as it was for monks. Therefore, the number of nuns and their institutions in Tibet was—and still is—much smaller than that of monks. There were approximately 5400 monasteri...
After returning to her home convent near Beauvais and praying in the chapel, "I felt a (surge of) well-being throughout my body, a relaxation, warmth...I returned to my room and, there, a voice told me to 'take off your braces,'" she said in a video posted on the Beauvais di...
你若愿意作完全人,可去变卖hearts;hearts;你所有的 go sell what thou hast and give to the poor...and come follow me. 分给穷hearts;人hearts;你还要来跟从我 Each sister shall understand that on entering the convent... 每一名进入修女院的修女 在一进门就该了解 she has made the sacrifice of ...
你若愿意作完全人,可去变卖hearts;hearts;你所有的 go sell what thou hast and give to the poor...and come follow me. 分给穷hearts;人hearts;你还要来跟从我 Each sister shall understand that on entering the convent... 每一名进入修女院的修女 在一进门就该了解 she has made the sacrifice of ...