The fictional teen was Holden Caulfield, the narrator of J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” Compared with what he’s reading in English class (“I’m not too crazy about Romeo and ...

Wes Anderson is one of the most original filmmakers working today, known for a distinct visual style. But his films are so ...

Nuns’ diverse experiences of monastic solitude reflect modern urban loneliness. In 1812 Lord Byron expressed the contradictory nature of loneliness in the poem Childe Harold, juxtaposing the positive ...

The film, which is set at a remote Australian orphanage during World War II, is a gorgeously shot meditation the different ...

Sister Mary Barron, president of the umbrella group of leaders of women’s religious orders, urged the superiors and the over 650,000 nuns worldwide to pray that the cardinals make the right ...

In 2024, there were roughly 35,000 nuns in the United States, an 80% decrease from 1965, when there were about 175,000, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns around the world, and they dedicate their lives to a variety of religious ...

VATICAN CITY — Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal that will be difficult for the future pope to ignore.

In the past, women were often underappreciated for their contributions to science and technology, including early women ...

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