The Girl Walk // All Day project we premiered here has gone on to inspire even normally stationary New Yorkers to dance... and amongst them, a nun! Sister Silvia was at the NYC premiere of the dance-driven film in early December, to watch it in full (check her out in the front row). She later had dinner with protagonist Anne Marsen, who she told, “Anne that premiere inspired me so… I actually went out by the river the next day by myself… and danced as the sun set!” And here she is!: more ›

On a ruby Tuesday night this week, fashion model Theodora Richards, scion of Rolling Stones guitarist/heroin enthusiast Keith Richards, was arrested for graffiti and drug possession. And because Charlie Sheen hasn't peeped out of his shell yet today, the dailies are all over this minor incident involving the offspring of a celebrity best known for worshipping at the altar of Chuck Berry and snorting his own fathers ashes. more ›

When Brooklyn Apostles of Infinite Love member Mary Turcotte lied to cops about being raped and dragged through the snow by a 250-pound, 6'4" man, she decided to add the detail that her fake attacker was black. Which isn't sitting well with at least two of Brooklyn's black men. "I'm pissed off," said Brooklyn's Reggie Antoine. "It makes women paranoid of us." Issac Dennis said, "I don't know why they must accuse falsely like that. I think it must be prejudice." Tucotte didn't seem to give a race for the fake bodega worker with whom she claimed to be sleeping, but New York's bodega employees don't seem too upset about their new rep as nun-defiling Lotharios. more ›

A very naughty nun must be dealing with some serious Catholic guilt today after she was charged with embezzling more than $1.2 million from a Westchester college. Sister Marie Thornton, 62, worked as vice president of finance at Iona College in New Rochelle, and is accused of stealing the money from the Catholic school over the last decade, by submitting false invoices and using a college-issued credit card for personal expenses. more ›

A nun at the St. Irene's Church and Monastery in Astoria, home of the miraculous weeping icon, recently turned over $260,000 and 100 gold coins to the cops after finding them in a bag. Sister Christonymphi Fitzpatrick was asked to safeguard the bag left by abbot Metropolitan Paisios Loulourgas when he traveled to Greece, but became suspicious and opened it. She turned it over to the police after finding the cash inside. But according to the parishioners, it's not as sketchy as it looks! When asked what they thought the money would be used for, one told the Post, "It's to build the monastery. That's what we believe." Most construction companies accept only doubloons these days. more ›

Little Italy visitors, beware! Your supposed generosity towards the city's orphans could actually be funding a scam ring run by a convicted rapist. The Post followed "Sister Milindia" around Little Italy as she begged for money "for the children of St. Joseph's," and then returned to Brooklyn, changed out of her habit in the middle of the street, and walked into the home of a man who "whacked her lustily on the behind." Two days later, she was supposedly in Atlantic City. Maybe she was just trying to double the donations! more ›

Two alleged muggers were arraigned yesterday on charges of murder and robbery in the death of an 84-year-old nun in Harlem last month. But some legal experts think the DA's case will test the limits of a state law that lets prosecutors charge suspects with murder if someone gets killed while they're committing a separate felony. In this case, police had already handcuffed William Robbins after police pulled over his minivan in Harlem; it was his alleged partner in crime who then sped off, ultimately causing a car crash that killed Sister Mary Celine Graham and injured four others. more ›

It's a no-brainer that the alleged robber who fatally ran over an elderly nun while fleeing police last week should be charged with murder. But the Manhattan DA's decision to also charge his partner with murder could be a hard sell with a jury. William Robbins was initially behind the wheel of the minivan that was pulled over by police last Tuesday morning in Harlem, and he complied with cops by getting out of the vehicle. That was when his alleged partner in crime, Dyson Williams, slid behind the wheel and sped off. Robbins was in police custody when Williams killed Sister Mary Celine Graham several minutes later, but like Williams he's being charged with Murder in the Second Degree, a felony punishable by up to life in prison. more ›

The first reports about the alleged robber who killed an elderly nun with his getaway van Tuesday morning said that there were two fugitives in the vehicle, both of whom ran off. But later that day, police arrested the man they say was the only one in the vehicle, Dyson Williams, accusing him of vehicular manslaughter. But Williams insists there was a third man, and denies driving the minivan that killed Sister Mary Celine Graham and injured four others. more ›

The NYPD Commissioner is defending officers against allegations of recklessness after an elderly nun was killed in Harlem by a robbery suspect fleeing cops in a minivan yesterday. The NYPD Patrol Guide states that "vehicle pursuit be terminated whenever the risks to uniformed members of the service and the public outweigh the danger to the community if [the] suspect is not immediately apprehended." But Commissioner Ray Kelly insists that police are not to blame for the accident, which killed Sister Mary Celine Graham and injured four others. more ›

Two suspected robbers fleeing police in a minivan fatally ran over a Franciscan nun with Parkinson’s disease in Harlem yesterday morning. It's being reported that the getaway van, a Chrysler Pacifica, was going more than 60 mph when it blew through a red light and collided with a Honda Odyssey, then bounced over a traffic island and into a group of pedestrians at Lenox Avenue and West 122nd Street. The crash sent them 15 feet into the northbound lane, witnesses tell the Times, killing Sister Mary Celine Graham, 84, and critically injuring her home health aide. Another pedestrian is in stable condition. more ›

A Brooklyn teenager who went on a torrid two-week assault-spree last year was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty. Eric Ferguson, 19, was linked to six separate attacks during May and June 2008. Among his victims were two Chinese deliverymen (one of whom was stabbed) and 62-year-old nun and Catholic school teacher Patricia McGowan, whose car and purse were stolen, and whose face was left an unholy mess: "Her left eye was blackened and bloodshot, and her left cheek was swollen and purple from her eye to her jaw." more ›

A nun who spent Tuesday afternoon knocking back too much "Jesus juice" was arrested for drunk driving after plowing into a tree on Long Island. Sister Lauren Hanley, 68, is the "spiritual development director" at Wantagh's St. Frances de Chantal Church, which is where she started drinking around 3 p.m. that day. Some three hours later, she was careening through residential streets in the church's 2006 Toyota Corolla, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.18, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08. more ›

Robbers have decided to bypass the poor boxes and instead steal from Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens. The Post reports that thieves stole a heavy safe from the Holy Family School in Flushing, Queens. It's suspected that it's an inside job, since the thieves "were able to find the safe on the second floor in a locked closet" and "also seemed to know it recently had been filled with tuition money, which was to be deposited the following day." Plus they were able to remove the safe, which had $19,000 in cash and checks, without waking the sleeping nuns! Sister Dorothy Delaney said, "I hate to say it, but someone must have known where it was." Other Catholic schools have reported robberies; the Post say the police aren't saying whether it's a pattern. Last week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he would attempt to turn some Catholic schools into charter schools. more ›