Today there are eight Dominican nuns in the convent, who participate in Sunday Mass from behind a grille to the left of the altar. Next to them, lies their treasured Marian icon, also behind a grille.

A 112-year-old former Catholic school in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood later used to house nonprofit groups will be demolished and replaced with a new convent. Sisters of St. Francis of ...

The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi will replace the Marian Center for Nonprofits in St. Francis, which closed this summer, with a new convent. The Marian Center for Nonprofits was a two ...