Just as the pandemic began to ease, Therese, at 96, passed away. But not before celebrating 38 joyful birthdays within the ...

Molly Burhans had a stunning realization during her visit to a Benedictine monastery in Pennsylvania: The Catholic Church owns or stewards a significant amount of land — roughly the equivalent of the ...

The Vatican rendered a Catholic monastery in North Texas "extinct" after one of its nuns reportedly broke her chastity vows. According to the Houston Chronicle, the judgment follows a year-long ...

The Poor Clare abbess of the Monastery of Santo Cristo de Balaguer in Lérida province in northeast Spain is criticizing a 2018 rule established by Pope Francis that dissolves communities of women ...

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries, I jumped at the chance. In Puebla, Mexico, where I grew up, some Catholic churches are ...

After more than a century, the Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, have moved out of their historic monastery in the 700 block of Henry Clay Avenue near Audubon Park, leaving vacant an ...

The college is located next to the 100-year-old Benedictine monastery, Belmont Abbey, home to a group of Catholic Benedictine monks who serve as spiritual mentors and educators within the college and ...

Guidroz said Modler and the nun were at a monastery in the St. Landry Parish ... published a fraud alert about Modler impersonating a Catholic brother, according to the Servants of the Father ...

The town also houses two ancient monasteries: the Eastern Catholic monastery of Saint Sarkis and the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Thecla. A group of 16 Saint Thecla nuns was taken hostage by ...