After more than a century, the Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, have moved out of their historic monastery in the 700 block of Henry Clay Avenue near Audubon Park, leaving vacant an ...

There are four of them now, but the Poor Clares who have prayed up a storm behind the 10-foot brick walls of their sprawling ...

The Poor Clare abbess of the Monastery of Santo Cristo de Balaguer in Lérida province in northeast Spain is criticizing a 2018 rule established by Pope Francis that dissolves communities of women ...

The cloistered nuns, who belong to the Poor Clares order and were famed for the sweets they made, including a mojito-flavoured confection, aligned themselves with a renegade priest, considered a ...

A million pound appeal for a new monastery for the Poor Clare nuns of Clintonville Road ... on life in an enclosed order. Architect’s plans for new monastery. The reporter is Kieron Wood.