nun

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One of my grandfather’s most repeated stories was about a nun who gave him a new school uniform because the other kids were making fun of how small and worn his old one was.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

“It breaks my heart, because I’m an immigrant,” said Lupita Sanchez, a Franciscan nun who joined the Mass on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

It’s a genuine calamity—there are deaths, as well as displacement of babies and the ill, including one nun recently diagnosed with tuberculosis but who had no choice but to continue caring for the kids.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

They slept 20 to a room, with a nun at one end, and the door locked.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

It looked like Lyra, but the nun had been so sure....

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman