Nestled in the farmland of Port Tobacco, Maryland, stands the oldest Carmelite monastery in America. Founded in 1790, the Mount Carmel Monastery was the first Catholic convent for religious women in ...

Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, announced on Monday that the Vatican had issued a decree of suppression to forcibly close the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in ...

The secret has been out for quite a while about how Francis Poulenc’s opera, “Dialogues of the Carmelites” ends. There’s nothing to give away. As in actual history, so in the opera: 16 nuns at the ...

Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their death on July 17, 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the frightening period of the French Revolution which oversaw the execution of at ...

Archaeologists believe they may have found evidence of a community of the Carmelite Order in areas excavated around the Panagia Karmiotissa church in Kato Polemidia in Limassol, the antiquities ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Secluded in a fortress of stone, behind thick, high walls, the Sisters of Carmel of the Resurrection pray. Their monastery bristles with battlements, commanding a hill. Inside, the 11 ...

I lived at Carmelite from 1991 to 2000, from when I was 9 to 18 years old. I graduated from Clark High School while at the home. My three brothers and I all lived in the home during that decade at ...

CEBU CITY — Carmelites nuns here have denounced the controversial trailer of the film “Maid in Malacañang” showing nuns playing mahjong in the very place where former President Corazon Aquino hid to ...

The monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Lipa City, Batangas, closed its yearlong diamond jubilee celebration on May 31, with pilgrims and devotees flocking to the Marian Shrine and attending ...