More than two years after a scandal erupted between a group of secluded Arlington nuns and a Catholic bishop, the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on outward appearances. Focusing on the contemplative dimension of the ...

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 ...