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 ...

Catastrophes attract a lot of people to religious orders. The first time I visited the Community of St. John Baptist (CSJB), the Episcopal convent I now lead as the Sister Superior, it was Presidents ...

As part of The Conjuring Universe, The Nun includes true-story connections that make the movie more disturbing. Based on the ...

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 ...

The Nun is a part of The Conjuring universe, which charts the real-life stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren The couple were famous for investigating paranormal allegations Set in Romania in 1952, the ...

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 ...

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 ...