The Poor Clares have been part of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville since 1986, when they branched out from a monastery in ...

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...

The daily chores were temporarily put on hold at the Poor Clare Monastery on College Road in Cork city, as the sisters in this enclosed Order gathered together to watch the funeral service of a ...

Known as the Poor Clares, they don’t have TV sets, radios or internet. Private telephone use is prohibited, except in emergencies. But the monastery has electricity, and rising power bills have ...

Spanish police accused the excommunicated “abbess” of a monastery of Poor Clares of fraud after she sold 1.73kg of gold. Laura García de Viedma – formerly Sr Isabel of the Trinity – told ...

PHOENIX — Some educators worry that the way math is taught in Arizona’s public schools may be contributing to students’ poor performances on state science tests. An analysis of science test ...

Illinois sisters go solar Cloistered nuns live their lives closed off from the world. But a group of Poor Clares in western Illinois has found a way to go even further off the grid — literally.

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