CNA Deutsch, Sep 18, 2025 / 16:33 pm

Since early September, three elderly nuns have been making international headlines and gaining followers on Instagram after fleeing their nursing home and returning to their convent in Austria.

Sister Bernadette, 88; Sister Regina, 86; and Sister Rita, 81, left their Caritas nursing home and, with the help of a locksmith, returned to their former convent, Goldenstein, near Salzburg, Austria, according to the BBC .

Now, the Augustinian nuns are flatly refusing to return to the nursing home, from which they have officially withdrawn.

According to the Vatican’s Cor Orans regulations, communities with fewer than five nuns can no longer elect their own superior. In 2022, by order of the Vatican, the three nuns had to transfer ownership of the Golde

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