When Emma Atkinson told her father that she wanted to be a cloistered Carmelite nun, he thought it was a fleeting desire.

Think of all the daily offices where monks hear liturgies and pray for people they’ve never met, perhaps lumping people into categories — car mechanics, out-of-work gardeners, law students who flunked ...

From here, Wood fast-forwards four years. Her protagonist has turned her back on her job, marriage, and friends and made this convent her fixed abode. Her succession of sacrifices has proved damaging: ...

Most people would think that life inside the cloister is tough, especially since contemplatives, who committed themselves to ...

On Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, celebrated a ...

According to the newspaper Mosaico CSI, the dictatorship’s order was carried out on the night of Jan. 28, forcing some 30 cloistered ... the sisters (in the Monastery of the Franciscan Poor ...

But it never crossed his mind that he would someday be living in a cloistered abbey in the south of France producing wine. The monastery is the site of the oldest papal vineyard in the world ...

When Pope Clement V moved the papal capital from Rome to Avignon in France, his palace needed a steady stream of wine and so the vineyard was planted in Le Barroux. Abandoned for decades, the monks ...

At first we were worried it would affect our cloistered life, so we asked St Joseph in prayer ... even Decca Records managing director Dickon Stainer could not enter their convent when it came to ...

Dan Brown knew it when he penned his book Angels and Demons, which sees the abduction of four cardinals vying for the position of pope. And Robert Harris knew it when he wrote the 2016 novel that ...