More than two years after a scandal erupted between a group of secluded Arlington nuns and a Catholic bishop, the Vatican ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘I felt like the Lord had maybe planted the seed long before, and then it bloomed as I got older,’ she said. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration from the Our Lady of Solitude Monastery in Tonopah, ...

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 ...

Using her forefinger, Sister Juli Caron traces a circle over Dean Carpenter's head. "I want to get my halo shining like yours," she says, standing at his bedside in MeritCare's oncology unit.

If you know, you know. Tucked away in Madrid is a centuries-old culinary secret: cookies baked by cloistered nuns. Their recipes are more than food — they’re history you can taste. To find them, you ...