Happy Hour With the Vanishing Nuns of New York

As convents are closing all over, the sisters are facing the end of their lives together — and they have brought the party to an assisted living center in the suburbs.Having sold their convent, the Sisters of Divine Compassion (from left, Sister Joanne Fallon, Sister Mary Stephen Healey, Sister Mary Alice O’Brien, and Sister Jane Keegan) now gather at the Wartburg home in Mount Vernon, N.Y.