Wiseman gave us a glimpse into life in an Anglican Benedictine monastery in Michigan, at a time of transition in American social, political and religious life.

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Vatican said in a statement Monday it considers the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington “extinct” in the eyes of the church. The Vatican’s statement and Nov. 28 ...

In a Monday statement, Olson described the "women" who live at the "former monastery" are "neither nuns nor Carmelites despite their continued and public self-identification to the contrary." Olson ...

The dismissal caps a bitter and divisive feud between the Carmelite nuns and Church authorities ranging from Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson to the Vatican itself. The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa ...

The author walking at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, Calif. (Hiroko Takeuchi) I first began spending time with my friend Therese after she wrote me a letter about an old book of mine I’d written ...

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...

The Vatican says it no longer recognizes an Arlington monastery at the center of a bitter monthslong feud with the Fort Worth bishop over allegations the head nun violated her vow of chastity with a ...