The new Discalced Carmelite monastery will be in northern Cooke County outside of Muenster, about 80 miles north of Dallas, ...

Catholic leaders say the nuns can remain at the Austrian convent but must return to a “cloistered monastic life” away from ...

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 ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...

Three Austrian nuns have rejected a compromise to remain at Goldenstein Monastery, escalating a yearslong dispute that now ...

Sister Regina (86 years old), and Sister Rita (82 years old), the indomitable Austrian nuns who refused to leave their ...

The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach and the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington sued Bishop Michael Olson and the Fort Worth Diocese for $1 million.Courtesy of Matthew Bobo A group of ...

In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three months after a trio of octogenarian nuns broke out of their nursing home and back into their former convent, the ...

A group of nuns in Texas have been feuding with a local bishop over whether one of the nuns broke her chastity vow. Now, the nuns have banned the bishop from their monastery and demanded he repent for ...