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

These Carmelite convents were established throughout Europe, with nuns devoted to a cloistered life based on the original rule of Saint Albert, which emphasized solitude, silence, prayer, and fasting.

Cloistered nuns from Buffalo, New York, announced they have officially left the state for Florida in an effort to find "silence and solitude." "Prayerful greetings from sunny Florida! We are happy ...

Garvey Manor administrator Sister Joachim Anne Ferenchak, of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, entered religious life in 1967. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski In Youngstown ...

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 ...

In 1978 the monastery shut down because 10 of the 11 nuns remaining there were either too ill or too old to remain.

Sister Veronica Higgins of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Thérèse ... (photo: Archdiocese of Oklahoma City) A religious sister who ministered in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City died in a car ...

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 ...