The three octogenarian nuns broke out of a nursing home to go back to live in their convent, sparking a dispute with their ...

This new monastery comes after years of controversy involving the prior Carmelite monastery based in Arlington.

(RNS) — A 38-year-old Dominican makes the fundamentals of contemplative life more accessible to laypeople.

Bishop Michael Olson announced Dec. 2 that the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life gave permission for the new monastery.

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

"THIS PLACE HAS AN ETERNAL CHARM." But this year’s harvest happened as a ceasefire agreement was reached, spreading a tenuous hope for peace — peace that olive branches have symbolized since the ...

Italian volunteers collect olives they just harvested at the Franciscan hermitage on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) JERUSALEM — Come October, monks and ...

JERUSALEM — Come 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 ...