Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel narrates Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of ...
LOMÉ, Togo — Coffee production requires great devotion, especially if those harvesting the beans are Catholic monks. High in ...
But defiant, independent and even rebellious nuns are hardly a new phenomenon. The 2020s especially have seen nuns defy the often unexamined assumptions that religious women, hidden behind their ...