Using her forefinger, Sister Juli Caron traces a circle over Dean Carpenter's head. "I want to get my halo shining like yours," she says, standing at his bedside in MeritCare's oncology unit.

This nun makes a habit of keeping life fun. Sister Monica Clare is still surprised when outsiders don’t believe how superiorly hip it is inside the convent, like one who thought nuns were forbidden to ...

On a hot August morning, 30-year-old Sister Bethany Madonna sits before the altar of the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist. Seated alongside her are seven other women, also in their 30s, also ...

STANWOOD — At the end of a dead-end street on the edge of Stanwood city limits, past herds of sleeping cattle, down a long gravel driveway, there is a place people go to find God. The ranch-style home ...