Set in 1211 Italy, playwright Chiara Atik tells the story of St Clare of Assisi, founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (later called The Poor Clares), who renounced her family’s wealth and status and ...

Poor Clare at the Orange Tree Theatre review: this riches to rags fable is polished but tone deaf - 3/5 This meditation on ...

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Liz Kettle, who plays Peppa, one of Clare’s servants. We discussed how she went ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first “getaway” from Castel Gandolfo to visit the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of the Poor ...

As part of his summer break, Pope Leo XIV visited members of the Italian Carabinieri in Castel Gandolfo and the Poor Clares in nearby Albano Laziale.

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...