OMG You Were a Nun and You're Black?
I spent over four years researching friendship patterns of people from all ages in order to write Racing Across the Lines: Changing Race Relations th...
I spent over four years researching friendship patterns of people from all ages in order to write Racing Across the Lines: Changing Race Relations th...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.08.2012
Eileen Cuhaj, a plain, serious soul with a wisp of white hair and wire-rim spectacles that make her brown eyes sparkle, was raised a good Catholic girl. All these years, she has called upon her faith to sustain her.
Posted 05.25.2011
Africa has always been the most alluring place in the world to Martha E. Leiker, a place she dreamed about constantly. In her memoir, From Silence to ...
Posted 05.25.2011
A Brooklyn nun has found herself in some hot holy water. Sister Mary Turcotte, whom The Daily News describes as "a member of the rogue Christian sect...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Rose Marie is a stoic woman, a no-nonsense product of the Great Depression and World War II. Yet as she talks about children, she can't stifle the slight smile that plays across her face.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BELEM, Brazil — A Brazilian court has delayed the trial of a rancher accused of ordering the murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stan...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger A nun in Phoenix, Arizona was excommunicated for approving a lifesaving abortion. Sister Margaret McBr...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
A man says he was abused by a nun while a child - the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church.
Posted 05.25.2011
Jason and John Wojdyla were doing air-conditioning work on a building overlooking the train tracks in suburban Lemont. They noticed a car trapped on t...
Waylon Lewis | Posted 11.17.2011
The nun behind Dead Man Walking, the best-selling book and movie offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor. "It's all about waking up," Sister Helen says.
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011
An Italian exotic dancer has left behind the string bikinis and become a nun, reports Times Online. After leading a life filled with "sex and alcohol,...
The Independent | Andrew Buncombe in Delhi | Posted 05.25.2011
A former nun's tell-all story which details illicit relationships, sexual harassment and bullying in the convent where she spent three decades is caus...
Daily Mail | Posted 05.25.2011
A nun who was allegedly raped by more than 40 men during an outbreak of anti-Christian violence in India has accused local police of shielding her att...
Deborah Plummer | Posted 01.06.2012