In Cáceres, Spain, the fairytale city where much of House of Dragons was filmed, a sweet secret lies behind the hidden windows of three convents. Inside, cloistered nuns make cookies and sell them to ...

The superior of the community in San Francisco also addressed parents and promised that they will not regret letting their children choose a life dedicated to the Lord. From left to right: Sister Mary ...

Global religion reporter Giovanna Dell’Orto and Athens, Greece, photographer Petros Giannakouris gained unprecedented access to a convent housing 13 cloistered Catholic nuns on the trendy Greek island ...

Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years in a Carmelite monastery. Her new memoir is Cloistered. Catherine Coldstream didn't grow up planning to become a nun. Coldstream was from London, and had lived in ...

Nun Maria de Jesus Frayle, 24, holds a tray with fried Christmas figures at the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament convent in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. It's the fortnight ...

After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12... A former nun explains why she ran away from her ...