In the medieval church, women’s roles were limited – usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an ...

Maria Shriver still remembers the profound conversation she had with a nun after her marriage ended. The TODAY special anchor, 67, reflected on her visit to a convent as part of her search for ...

A Catholic nun in Spain recently warned of a new "cult" after several nuns in her convent announced they were breaking from the Catholic Church. The Pillar, a new site focusing on aspects of the ...

Maria Shriver sought advice at a convent following her 2011 split from Arnold Schwarzenegger. The journalist spoke to Hoda Kotb on Monday about an interaction with the cloistered convent’s reverend ...

The riot, when it finally happened, was a leisurely one. In the weeks leading up to August 11, 1834, the people of Boston had been openly discussing burning down the Ursuline Convent that stood just ...

Carmo Convento is actually a ruin of a 14th-century convent that was destroyed by an infamous earthquake and fire. On Nov. 1, 1755, one of the deadliest earthquakes of all time shook Lisbon. Buildings ...

"I had never given myself permission to feel, to be vulnerable, to be weak," Maria Shriver said Maria Shriver sought out life advice at a convent after her marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger ended.

In Louisiana, there are lots of historic buildings and homes, and some of these structures' history span all the way back to when Louisiana was still under French rule. A plethora of knowledge ...

The papal palace in Avignon, where the pope's court was based for much of the 14th century. Jean-Marc Rosier from http://www.rosier.pro/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA In ...

(The Conversation) — Women’s work may not have been glamorous, but it was vital to the workings of the pope’s court and surrounding city. (The Conversation) — In the medieval church, women’s roles ...