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Former pupils have helped them settle back into their old lives, including by bringing them food, bedding and other supplies.

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Three elderly nuns who fled from a retirement home in Austria to return to their abandoned convent have been told they can ...

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Catholic leaders say the nuns can remain at the Austrian convent but must return to a “cloistered monastic life” away from ...

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Three months after a trio of octogenarian nuns broke out of their nursing home and back into their former convent, the ...

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