Benedictine nuns are pictured in 1900 before the completion ... dark dresses called "habits," clothing from much earlier centuries often topped with starched wimples that squeezed the wearer's ...

An order of nuns affiliated with Benedictine College rejected Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison's Butker's comments in a commencement speech there last weekend that stirred up a culture war skirmish.

The nuns at the oldest Benedictine monastery in the province of Quebec, Canada, are known to live behind a grille. But, for nearly two years, the Abbey of Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes ...