This nun makes a habit of keeping life fun. Sister Monica Clare is still surprised when outsiders don’t believe how superiorly hip it is inside the convent, like one who thought nuns were forbidden to ...

Maryanne Braverman, now 77, spent 10 years in a New York-based convent before conversations with a therapist made her rethink her direction Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE ...

Claudette Monica Powell discovered her calling at age 5, when she flicked on the television in her Georgia home. "The Nun's Story" came onscreen. The 1959 Audrey Hepburn drama about a Belgian sister ...

From the lights of a theater to the flashes of TV studio lights, and finally, to the gates of heaven itself. The journey of Sister Clare Crockett, a former “wild child” actress who left behind a life ...

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 ...

Lais Dognini met the love of her life, Jackson, at a convent, but neither of them knew they would one day end up together As time passed, the two independently left their religious callings, only to ...

Sister Rosa, born Ngoc Hong Thi Pham in Vietnam, says the children she teaches at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy in New York City "look like angels." The 35-year-old native of Saigon is a nun ...

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 ...

Maryanne Braverman, now 77, spent 10 years in a New York-based convent before conversations with a therapist made her rethink ...