To mark the anniversary of the founder of what came to be known as the Poor Clares, the sisters of the Order of St. Clare will welcome visitors to celebrate 9 a.m. Mass and join them afterward for a ...

The exterior of the new monastery under construction in Elkhorn, Nebraska. It's expected to be finished in March. Sister Theresina Santiago, of the Poor Clare Sisters, walks through the new monastery ...

Nuns in the Franciscan Order of St. Clare live in isolation at a Belleville monastery, spending most of their time in prayer, never leaving to visit family, go shopping or even walk in the ...

Five Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration will establish a new monastery this month on a mountain peak in Black Canyon City, located in the Diocese of Phoenix. Bishop Thomas Olmsted invited the monastic ...

An order of Catholic nuns is fighting a lower court decision against a Trump administration rule allowing religious employers ...

Watch the sunset from Cunningham Lake on May 29, 2024 Just as when their order arrived in Omaha in 1878, the Sisters of Poor Clare are going about their cloistered lives on the outskirts of the city.

The Poor Clares follow the Rule of St. Clare — which was approved by Pope Innocent IV two days before Clare’s death in 1253 — and take vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity. The Poor Clares of ...

‘I felt like the Lord had maybe planted the seed long before, and then it bloomed as I got older,’ she said. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration from the Our Lady of Solitude Monastery in Tonopah, ...

Spain's Archdiocese of Burgos said it is "studying the best way to evict the ex-religious women" after rebel nuns and their superior were excommunicated for rejecting the Catholic Church's authority.

Sister Angela lifts the youngest baby to her shoulder, its hooves hanging below her waist, and carries the miniature foal from a stall. Following docilely behind is Bluebonnet, the mother, who watches ...