During Angela's first semester at her art college, she partied hard--and art schools party harder than do most college students. But after a few months, that felt empty to her, and almost like a light ...

Carmela is a young aristocrat who refuses an arranged marriage and is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the decadent nun Elizabeth, whose influential family ...

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For more than 60 years, a small group of cloistered nuns were part of the Catholic Diocese of Erie. Now the walls behind which they lived, worked and prayed have come down.

A group of cloistered nuns has been working overtime in the kitchen to help Philadelphia church officials prepare for Pope Francis' visit, baking 100,000 communion hosts for his public Mass. Religious ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, ...