Monasteries look like idyllic places where time stands still, and your soul enjoys complete peace. These stone buildings with their gardens and intricate iconography look like heaven on earth, but the ...

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...