The seller spent close to $2 million and several years renovating Hume Cloister, a historic property in Berkeley, Calif.

Pope Leo has appointed Sister Ramona Brambilla as the prefect of the Vatican office responsible for all the Catholic Church’s religious orders, and the Augustinian Nuns Monastery in New ...

Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaaty on Wednesday told his Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis that the spiritual and ...

Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an Egyptian court has mandated that St. Catherine's Monastery be taken over by the ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

Scott and Cheryl Filler have made many discoveries as they delved into restoring the 61-acre former Lourdes Franciscan Friary ...

Four miles from Walmart down a dirt road sits the Carmel of Mary Monastery in Wahpeton next to the Wild Rice River, which is ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

Estonian capital Tallinn, with its mediaeval Old Town, takes you back to the 15th century, but with modern touches. Read more ...

For good measure, St. Thérèse also wrote several poems to and for our Blessed Mother, including Why Do I Love you, O Mary! that includes the line: The mother's treasure belongs to the child ...

The monastery welcomes anyone who would like to visit — provided they are male. In a more than 1,000-year-old tradition, women are banned from the entire peninsula, which is deemed the Virgin Mary's ...

At Saint Clare’s Monastery in Sauk Rapids ... Sisters Christiana and Mary Paul, who live a cloistered life at the monastery with minimal interactions with the outside world, broke their usual ...