After years of awaiting Vatican approval for the sale of the sprawling $14.5 million Los Feliz hilltop convent/really great find, Katy Perry met ambassador of Christ and final arbiter of his properties, the Pope. Perry, her mom, and current boyfriend Orlando Bloom came for an international summit on curing cancer,…
Katy Perry has technically won the battle against the nuns whose convent she desires, but the last remaining nun, Sister Rita Callanan, is still fighting.
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano apparently has a women’s magazine, and apparently, they are not fucking around.
Think of the thing you want more than anything. Is it a new president? Healthcare for all? An end to world hunger? A puppy? Those shoes with lights in the heels that you parents refused to buy you in 1992? Whatever it is, take that feeling of desire and magnify it by a power of 200 and you’ll understand just how badly…
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A group of cloistered nuns known as the “Pink Sisters” for their rose-colored habits have successfully completed 100 years of continuous prayer by working in shifts. Now, they are working to achieve the next 100.
Catholic priests have become synonymous with “abuse” in recent years, but they’ve never been the only people of the cloth guilty of inflicting physical and emotional pain on innocent victims. Seldom talked about are the rarely maligned women of the Church: sisters who intentionally abused fellow nuns behind convent…
Nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, the group founded by the late Mother Teresa, will close down their 30 orphanages rather than allow single and divorced people to adopt.
A simple Google search for the word “nun” brings up a flurry of related news articles. Nuns tailgating to see Pope Francis, nuns battling Katy Perry over a fancy L.A. convent, nuns taking on McDonald’s. Then there’s the apparent surge of millennials answering God’s call to devote themselves to a religious life. Nuns:…
There’s not much money in a life of quiet contemplation, which is tough, because quiet contemplation while ConEd comes to turn off your electricity is challenging. Which is why some nuns in upstate New York sell cheesecake. Fancy cheesecake, billed as “heavenly,” in flavors like key lime and chocolate. Tasty, tasty…
NUNS WIN! NUNS WIN! Or at least American nuns no longer have a Vatican investigation hanging over their heads, anyway.
Pope Francis just made a whirlwind visit to Naples, where he gave a speech condemning corruption and organized crime. He also got swarmed by nuns and accepted a pizza from the moving Popemobile. And what did you do this weekend?
For the second time in a year, an Italian nun complaining of stomach pains has gone to the hospital and, rather unexpectedly, given birth. (Any jokes about immaculate conception made in the comments will be grounds for immediate and permanent expulsion from Paradise.)
In 2008, under then-pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican launched a broad investigation into the "quality of life" of American nuns, a move that, to a lot of those nuns, looked like it was meant to forcefully nudge them back in line. On Tuesday, the completed investigation was finally released; instead of being critical,…
Last night, Sister Cristina Scuccia—the adorable singing nun who blew everyone away with the amazing Alicia Keys cover—won the Italian version of The Voice. Her winning number? "What a Feeling," from the 1983 classic Flashdance, complete with backup dancers.
The Voice of Italy has not yet said arrivederci to singing Sicilian nun Sister Cristina. Her most recent performance: Dirty Dancing anthem "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
A producer on Italy's version of The Voice talks to the New York Times about Suor Cristina, the singing nun currently competing: "It was not just picking a nun. It was picking that specific nun. She is young. She is talented. She fits perfectly the spirit of the show." A reverend adds: "Today faith is the last…
In the latest play in the Vatican's strict two-year crackdown on those American rebel brutes known as nuns, the Cardinal Ludwig Müller (who I will just assume vaguely resembles George Mueller, from Boardwalk Empire) has taken a rather frank stance with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the…
Lifetime has green-lit a reality show about five young women living in a Catholic convent, who are trying to decide whether or not to become nuns 4 life. Titled The Sisterhood, the show is the brainchild of Hot Snakes Productions, who are also behind the painfully fake and boring Breaking Amish. Hopefully the nuns…
Things are moving right along over at the Italian edition of The Voice. Our favorite nun, Sister Cristina — who wowed the judges and brought a tough guy to tears with an Alicia Keys number during the blind auditions — is back for her first battle. And it's '80s week!
