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 ...

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 ...

A group of nuns engaged in a yearlong battle with Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson, pictured here in 2019, will report to a new authority, an association of Carmelite nuns. A group of cloistered nuns ...

Many monks and nuns are almost as tethered to their smart devices as the rest of us.

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on outward appearances. Focusing on the contemplative dimension of the ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines—Most people would think that life inside the cloister is tough, especially since contemplatives, who ...

The monastery was originally home to 14 nuns, but the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland announced its last residents will be moving to a monastery in Manchester, New Hampshire next month. The home ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Pope Francis brought down the house, or more precisely the church, on Sunday when he addressed cloistered nuns who were given special permission to leave their convents to see him. At ...