A trio of ex-communicated Poor Clares plan to open Spain’s first “cloistered” restaurant, funded by the sale of gold ingots.

JOHN MALVINO ALFONSOI was waiting for the bus to Mapusa after completing my personal retreat at the Cloistered Carmelite Monastery in Chicalim. A few passengers ...

Hollywood divorces tend to get a massive amount of publicity, especially when they drag on for years on end, growing increasingly complicated in the process.

The Catholic sisters are trying to raise funds after they were told to vacate their convent. Prior to that they had joined a ...

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THE month of September is not only the start of the longest Christmas celebration in the Philippines—it was also declared as “Public Relations Month” by Proclamation No. 1357 in 2007, recognizing the ...

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

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Charlotte Wood about Stone Yard Devotional, in which the narrator retreats to a convent to escape the demands of every day life. Soon, disruptions arrive.