"He's really old." That was Beate's first thought when she saw Ulrich Heinen, a Franciscan monk, for the first time - and she remembers that till this day. But at 65 at the time, it was not like she ...
Pope Francis said this love can be seen in the lives of contemplative monks and nuns who work and pray in silence for the whole Church. Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peter’s Square on ...
NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...
Nun Maria de Jesus Frayle, 24, holds a tray with fried Christmas figures at the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament convent in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. It's the fortnight ...
Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, delivered on April 26, 2023. To receive these remarks and more in your inbox every week, sign up for America’s daily newsletter. Dear ...
When the nuns of Maredret Abbey in Belgium were struggling to scrape together the funds for badly needed renovation works, they turned to an occupation that for hundreds of years had been the preserve ...
A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was ...
Buddhist monks and nuns who live in eastern Prince Edward Island say they were disappointed to hear some of the concerns expressed at a planning meeting this past week in the Town of Three Rivers. The ...
It is no accident that the patron saint of foreign missionaries is a cloistered nun, Pope Francis said Wednesday. Speaking in St. Peter’s Square on April 26, the pope pointed to the example of St.