As the saying goes, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz made history! The writer, philosopher, composer and poet, and nun was born Juana Ramírez de Asbaje in the 1650s ...

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Abbess Road: five of the sisters on the crossing made famous by the Beatles - Chris O'Donovan In 2019, the sisters at the Poor Clares convent in Arundel received an email. “It was from a lovely man ...

The memories had long ago faded into short, sharp sound bites for this lapsed Catholic. The short stint in their schools, the longer stint in their churches. The flowing black uniforms of the women ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dallas pop punk band Van Full of Nuns and Bowling for Soup are performing free shows at Longhorn City Limits Saturday ahead of the Longhorns game against Sam Houston State University.

On June 29, we’ll present our 25th Westword Music Showcase. The event has grown dramatically since it was founded in 1995 with just a handful of bands playing around LoDo. In 2019, more than 75 local ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Corpus Christi nun who has written dozens of poems throughout her life is about to hear her words turned into music by a New York composer. It was at Incarnate Word Convent ...

When Leticia Austria first realized she wanted to be a nun, the recognition felt both gradual and sudden. "When the final realization came of what was gradually happening to me, that was a thunderbolt ...