The developer and preservationist hopes to turn the nearly 2-acre site in Uptown New Orleans into a complex of high-end ...

Pope Francis on Monday met with a community of Poor Clare nuns, whose abbess died when the roof of their monastery collapsed in an earthquake in 2009. The cloistered nuns were able to return to their ...

Life at the Poor Clare Convent at Arundel in Sussex, England, is one of prayer, work, silence and solitude. Unexpectedly, the religious community has now become a chart-topping sensation with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poor Clare Sisters of New Orleans sing on the steps of their monastery on Easter, April 12, 2020. “We sang our hearts out for a handful of friends who assembled while distancing on the sidewalk,” said ...

SAUK RAPIDS — The sisters at St. Clare's Monastery abide by the three vows taken by all nuns: poverty, chastity and obedience. But they also take a vow of enclosure, meaning they spend their entire ...