Some things you stumble across online and immediately feel better about the world. No tragedy, no discourse, no chaos – just ...

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.- Bertrand Russell Throughout our history, religions have ...

In a rare deadlocked ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court found Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.

They abandoned their relationships, jobs, and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn from the nuns of today?

"Joining a religious order is a sign to other people that God is worth giving up everything for. A habit is such an important indicator ... she will be formally received into the community and become ...

Laura is wearing a white scapular and habit, traditional nun’s garments. Now 32, Laura will profess her first vows in March – ‘God willing’ – and she will trade in her novice whites for ...

From sharing flip phones to wearing habits, nuns choose a radical life The Franciscan ... find where you can serve with your gifts.” As a novice she would wake each morning around 5 a.m. After ...

The nuns wear the traditional habit. After final vows are taken ... the long process of becoming nuns - through 'living in' with the order, postulancy, as a novice, taking first and final vows. They ...

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As a novice, Susanna sheds her secular clothes ... told me when I asked why horror movies are still so obsessed with habit-sporting nuns and collared fathers. “These are people who dwell in ...

I wore the nun’s habit as opposed to the nuns you now see ... chastity and obedience.” As a novice nun, Helen Whait vowing for one year of poverty, chastity and obedience.