Sister Assunta rejoiced over the anomaly of a single egg laid in the heat of the afternoon. “Look! It’s a miracle! One straggler just for you!” The 33-year-old North Face cap and rubber-boot wearing ...

The prayerful life Colorado’s 23 cloistered Benedictine nuns are different from the nuns who run hospitals or schools. To choose a monastic life meant leaving the security of their family and ...