A deal to sell the Poor Clares’ former monastery alongside the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain and use the proceeds to expand their new home in Westwood has been delayed, for years now, as Boston ...

In Cáceres, Spain, the fairytale city where much of House of Dragons was filmed, a sweet secret lies behind the hidden windows of three convents. Inside, cloistered nuns make cookies and sell them to ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Perched on a hill in Sonoita, Ariz. is the Santa Rita Abbey. It over looks the trees and the mountains as silence envelops the entire area. The chirping birds and the ...

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- An Argentine judge on Friday ruled that 20 cloistered nuns had suffered abuse for more than two decades at the hands of high-ranking clergy in the country's conservative ...

After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12... A former nun explains why she ran away from her ...

BETHLEHEM — On a proscenium pillar that frames the stage of The Gary-The Olivia Theater at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, the word “Godspell” forms an arch over a rose-colored heart. It is a vestige of ...

Sister Mary Jo and Sister Theresa have made their home at the monastery on State Street in Portland for several decades living in the cloistered Catholic community. Sister Mary Jo has lived there ...

During Angela's first semester at her art college, she partied hard--and art schools party harder than do most college students. But after a few months, that felt empty to her, and almost like a light ...