Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on outward appearances. Focusing on the contemplative dimension of the ...

If you know, you know. Tucked away in Madrid is a centuries-old culinary secret: cookies baked by cloistered nuns. Their recipes are more than food — they’re history you can taste. To find them, you ...

The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture. By María Sánchez Díez Reporting from Madrid Ana Garriga ...

Each October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other ...

A Brazilian seminarian and a Carmelite nun left the Catholic Church to live their love story in the open. Jackson, who had been preparing for priesthood for five years, and Laís, a cloistered nun for ...

‘I understood that the Church has a heart, and that this heart burns with love. I understood that Love embraces all vocations, that Love is everything. … My vocation is Love.’ At the Carmelite chapel ...

During excavations of a Byzantine monastery in 2017 just north of Jerusalem’s Old City, a team led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Zubair ’Adawi and Kfir Arbiv discovered an unusual ...

BOLOGNA, Italy — This city of red-brick towers and delicately painted porticoes once boasted the most convents of any city in Italy: Nearly 100 sanctuaries sprang up in the 16th century for women ...

Need a fun, cozy mystery with characters you’ll fall in love with? I think you’ll love Making Friends Can Be Murder. Thirty-year-old Sarah Jones gets caught up solving a murder in her new neighborhood ...

© WOTSIT TV An unusual yet fitting sight: Horse-drawn carriages and knights line the side of Sebaldus Church. Hollywood visits Nuremberg. Nürnberg - A genuine ...

The authors of the forthcoming book, “Convent Wisdom” weigh in on the evergreen wisdom of nuns, the lure of convent life, and the social media buzz around cloistered living.