CONVENT life to some people seems cold and austere, and they see no reason for its existence. They seek no information from reliable sources either because they are not interested or because they ...
A 16th-century Italian convent would seem to be an unlikely locus for a tale of political intrigue, thwarted romance and adolescent angst. But in Sarah Dunant’s “Sacred Hearts,” the convent of Santa ...
MENDHAM, N.J. — On a Sunday night during Lent, a circle of Episcopal nuns sat in their lamp-lit library, chatting, knitting and gazing upon an unlikely altar: an orthopedic dog bed cradling their ...
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