For 98-year-old Sister Angela Rooney, it was one of the most jarring moves of her life. She always thought she would live out her days as she had for decades, in a convent under the time-honored Roman ...

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After the octogenarian nuns refused to return to their senior center, the abbot has finally folded. But he has some conditions. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher F. Schuetze visited the nuns in ...

Three elderly women religious in Austria fled their nursing home and have returned to their longtime monastery, defying church superiors in a case that highlights the impact of Vatican regulations ...