When a six-year-old asks ‘what is a nun for?’, it’s clear we’ve shamefully forgotten the contribution nuns have made to Irish society, writes Clodagh Finn.

US: An aspiring nun who was told she couldn’t enter a convent until her student loan debt was paid off has used an online appeal to get the money.

An Irish nun was rescued after spending three nights stuck in a lift in Rome.

A nun in her 70s has been gang-raped by a group of raiders as she tried to prevent them from committing a robbery at a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said.

LAST month, during a walking tour of Béthune in northern France, our guide recalled the work of a Cork woman, Kate McCarthy, who nursed wounded soldiers during both world wars. Her niece, Sr Breda McCarthy of the Loreto Convent in Bray, told me this extraordinary woman’s story.

A Catholic nun has become an overnight pop sensation after stunning the jury of Italy’s The Voice TV talent show with her version of the Alicia Keys hit “No One”.