BERLIN — Since breaking into their convent near Salzburg, Austria, Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita have been busy. On their Instagram account, Rita, 82, can be seen rushing about the cloisters and ...

(CNN) — When three octogenarian nuns fled their nursing home and broke back into their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, they became overnight stars. Almost every major news outlet covered them.

The authors of the forthcoming book, “Convent Wisdom” weigh in on the evergreen wisdom of nuns, the lure of convent life, and the social media buzz around cloistered living. Before we had hot girl ...

Sister Rita, 82, (left), Sister Regina, 86 (center) and Sister Bernadette, 88, broke into their former convent earlier this year after fleeing a care home they say church authorities took them to live ...