With prayer, mercy, work and beauty at its heart, ‘Joy Within His House’ reveals how Dominican nuns live the rhythms of a ...

After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12... A former nun explains why she ran away from her ...

The abbey is unusual for being a cloistered community — just about 5 percent to 10 percent of nuns in the United States are cloistered, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate ...