Andrew Jotischky’s new book is a history of monastic life from early Christianity - Alamy In seventh-century Emesa, Syria, a man walked through town tugging a dead dog on the end of a rope. He ...

Flowers sit at the gate to the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, where the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington live and pray, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Supporters of the sisters placed the ...

The six nuns will move into the monastery, which is located in the Vatican Gardens in Vatican City State, in early January, according to the press release. Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City ...

Legal and religious disputes between the Arlington Carmelite nuns and Fort Worth Catholic Bishop Michael Olson are no longer pending in civil courts or at the Vatican. Nuns from the Monastery of the ...

The dismissal caps a bitter and divisive feud between the Carmelite nuns and Church authorities ranging from Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson to the Vatican itself. The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa ...

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. – Amid quiet lives of prayer, a handful of nuns have sliced out a niche as bakers of high-end cheesecakes, so rich and creamy in flavors of chocolate, amaretto and key lime that they ...

As Italy grapples with overtourism, a series of ancient trails resurrected by nuns winds through the forgotten landscapes ...

From the monastery’s courtyard to the cricket crease, they proved that spirituality and sports can go hand in hand. Some one ...

A group of Texas nuns has been dismissed from religious life after a lengthy feud with their bishop over the governance of their monastery. Mother Marie of the Incarnation, the president of the ...