Using her forefinger, Sister Juli Caron traces a circle over Dean Carpenter's head. "I want to get my halo shining like yours," she says, standing at his bedside in MeritCare's oncology unit.

Sancoale, a village known by very few people, came to the fore after the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family was established in 1935. It became better known when the canonization process of ...

Nuns are a staple of pop culture. Think of The Sound of Music (1965), Sister Act (1992), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Bells of St Mary’s (1945), Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957) and Black Narcissus ...

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People come to their spiritual beliefs in all kinds of ways — through religious upbringing; as a result of contemplation and prayer; sometimes because of trauma. Sister Monica Clare, an Episcopalian ...