Maryland’s first Carmelite monastery continues its hidden life of prayer as the sisters prepare for the arrival of St.

Sister Wendy Beckett, a nun who lived out much of her life as a recluse in a caravan in Norfolk, became an unlikely BBC television star in the 1990s. Achieving international fame and success through ...

This July 11, 2025, photograph shows Niamh McCullagh, a forensic expert, standing on the site in Tuam, Ireland, where she is leading efforts to exhume the remains of children buried at the former St.

Our family comes from a devout Polish Catholic faith foundation. Being so, Catholic teachings denounce horoscopes and astrology as a contradiction of the First Commandment, with the reasoning ...

In a quiet recess carved out of the otherwise bustling northside of Dublin City, a group of "Red Nuns" gathered to solemnly watch the funeral of Pope Francis. The late pontiff's funeral was broadcast ...

When Emma Atkinson told her father that she wanted to be a cloistered Carmelite nun, he thought it was a fleeting desire. “Like when she was a little girl and told me that she wanted to be a fairy, a ...

The Carmelite nuns have left their home at a Christoval monastery after 35 years. "For decades, the Carmelite sisters have carried out a contemplative life of prayer and work at Our Lady of Grace ...

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The Catholic Church has declared a North Texas order of nuns "extinct" after conflict including accusations that a nun broke her vow of chastity with a priest — via email and video chat. The Vatican ...