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A glamorous nun has married a Catholic priest after they fell in love while praying together. Lais Dognini, a former nun who later became an influencer, originally met priest Jackson Dognini when he ...

She was 48 years old, overweight and addicted to cigarettes. When Sister Marion Irvine, a Dominican nun and school principal in San Rafael, Calif., decided to try jogging on Memorial Day in 1978, she ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Immaculate may appear to be all about evil nuns. In the movie’s grisly opening, four ...

Three octogenarian nuns have defied their diocese, run away from their nursing home and returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, which they are now occupying. On September 4, Sister ...

I was 7 when I first watched "The Sound of Music," and it left me with the impression that a nun's vocation involved sabotaging Nazi vehicles and belting out show tunes. For a few months afterward, I ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Nuns loom large in the European imagination. They are often caricatured to the point of dehumanisation. Either as a ...

It was the beatbox heard round the world. In May, a pair of Brazilian nuns were on a local Catholic TV show discussing a vocational retreat when it happened. Suddenly, the duo — in matching ...

A Brazilian nun is earning raves around the world after she showed off her impressive beatboxing skills. Sister Marizele of Brazil went viral after dropping some beats, during a May 20 appearance on a ...

A Brazilian nun has gone viral and become a global sensation after dropping a beat on TV. Sister Marizele Cassiano showcased her beatboxing skills on a Catholic TV show on May 23, according to Reuters ...

A French nun who traveled to say goodbye to Pope Francis in the Vatican this week was allowed to break church protocol. The 81-year-old Sister Genevieve Jeanningros had a close, four-decade-long ...