A deal to sell the Poor Clares’ former monastery alongside the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain and use the proceeds to expand their new home in Westwood has been delayed, for years now, as Boston ...

The tires buzz as the Volkswagen races over the rumble strips, my eyes scanning for radar guns and speed cameras. The relentless Washington suburban sprawl is ever-present, more highways, slap-dash ...

For the Poor Clare sisters who left their Jamaica Plain monastery three years ago, life has been stuck in neutral while City Hall weighs a controversial redevelopment next to the Arnold Arboretum. The ...

The Holy See's Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has informed the Archdiocese of Malta that it has suppressed St Peter's Monastery in Mdina and assigned Dom ...

The two-week dig included local school and community groups in the search for remnants of the Cistercian monastery known as Erenagh Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the well-preserved remains of a lost church that is thought to have once formed part of a medieval monastery. The church and monastery, located in the municipality of ...

Beams of morning sunlight stream into the church at Tatev Monastery. Joel Carillet / iStock People and clergy participate in a service at Sts. Paul and Peter Church at Tatev Monastery. Joel Carillet / ...

A former monastery in Tuscany, Italy, from the 8th century—making it the region’s oldest surviving abbey—is now on the market, according to Lionard Luxury Real Estate. Located outside Siena, about 45 ...

The new TLC reality series The Monastery follows five troubled men who are invited to live with a cloister of Benedictine monks for 40 days. An Iraqi war veteran, a recovering alcoholic and a former ...

For nearly 100 years, the cloistered nuns of the Monastery of the Angels have been praying for the people of Los Angeles 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from a rambling four-acre campus just below ...

The Monastery of Paleokastro (or "Old Castle") is an 18th-century nunnery on a verdant hill near the village of Ano Mera. It provides a respite from the bustling environment of Mykonos proper, ...