Víctor Sono Neira spent years trapped in addiction and crime as an international pickpocket. Today, at the age of 72, he is a living testimony to God’s mercy and forgiveness.

When Emma Atkinson told her father that she wanted to be a cloistered Carmelite nun, he thought it was a fleeting desire.

Sister Colette Fahey remembered Discalced Carmelite Sister Katherine Therese Mezger, a woman of deep faith and unwavering commitment to her vocation, at her funeral Mass on January 31 at the Carmelite ...

The order is discalced and cloistered ... Mother Teresa of Jesus resided at the Carmel in Las Vegas. New Carmelite foundations have been started in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, (now Fairfield ...

Sister Patricia Scanlan, a member of the Carmelite Sisters of Baltimore for more than 70 years who cared for the ill, died Jan. 19 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 92. “Sister ...

Others, like the Hanging Temple in China and Sumela Monastery in Turkey, virtually hover in midair, carefully balanced on the faces of steep, rocky cliffs. From the Buddhist traditions of Asia to ...

The two British doctors dealt frankly with the monks. They— Drs. Sydney A. Monckton Copeman and Major Greenwood were on a, mission for the Ministry of Health to learn how much influence a ...

With a slight smile forming, Song Hye-Kyo says, “I’m actually more of a realist, so not really into the supernatural stuff.” “I did try tarot though,” she adds. The observation comes ...

converted to Catholicism and joined the Discalced Carmelites. The two sisters were found and arrested in a Carmelite monastery in the Netherlands on Aug. 2, 1942, arriving in Auschwitz a week ...

Originally set in the 1950s, the show revolves around the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House. The latest series recently premiered on BBC, captivating audiences as the storyline progresses into 1970.

“We are financially quite stable, but monks are at the heart of a monastery – they are what gives a monastery meaning and without them it loses its meaning,” he says. The Cistercians voted ...