Catholic nuns are women who have devoted their lives to serving God and have taken vows concerning their behavior. The activities of nuns largely depends upon the order they enter. Many nuns teach or take care of the sick in order to fulfill spiritual obligations.
Catholic AnswerThere is more than a little confusion over this issue, even among Catholics, technically a nun is a religious sister who takes solemn vows and lives in a monastery. Normally, nuns do not outside work, and remain in their cloister, their entire life is given to God. Their main work is praying the Divine Office each day, and they support themselves either through needlework for the Church, or some run farms, retreat houses, etc.
Sisters, on the other hand, live out in the world, although usually in a convent, they are the ones who teach, nurse, etc. They are not under solemn vows, and are not considered "nuns" although people often confuse the terms. Nun is the female equivalent of a monk. While a Sister is the equivalent of a Brother.
NUNNERY
Nuns
Monks - monastery. Nuns - convent.
Nuns choose with their own free will to serve God's Church because they want to. No one makes them do it.
To pray for the Church and the world. To do work in their community.
Not unless it is about nuns. That's funny stuff!
help people
mostly the poor and children
An abbey is a building that houses monks, nuns, or priests. It really is a church.
Nuns have always lived in monasteries. They are sometimes called an Abbey, but the Abbey strictly refers to the Church, while "monastery" refers to the entire complex. "Monastery" can refer to a place where Nuns live, or where monks live. The archaic term for where Nuns live and work was "Nunnery."
They're Anglican nuns. Westminster Abbey is part of the Church of England.