Maryland’s first Carmelite monastery continues its hidden life of prayer as the sisters prepare for the arrival of St.

STANTON The story of St. Joseph’s Carmelite Monastery here at 200 Carpenter St. is a classic tale of the Old West, where the priests were about as rugged as anyone. Led by Father Athanasius Peters, ...

Marking 100 years since both the monastery’s founding and St. Thérèse’s canonization, the faithful gathered in song, prayer, ...

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The Carmelite Monastery on Pleasant Street is closing after 74 years of providing a home for nuns to live the cloistered religious life, part of a pattern that has seen the number of nuns in the ...

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 ...

CONCORD, NH — Due to an aging population and lack of new recruits, the Carmelite Monastery on Pleasant Street in Concord will be closing, according to nuns at the facility and the diocese of ...

A former Carmelite hermit, Fr. Daniel Mary, who founded a monastic community in 2003, has the unusual problem of finding a larger home for the flourishing monastery. The possible solution for the ...

Just because you’re a monk doesn’t mean you can’t use CAD. The Carmelite monks of Wyoming are building a grandiose Gothic Monastery, and it’s awe inspiring how they are managing to build it. The ...

Nuns from an Arlington, Texas, Carmelite monastery are suing the Diocese of Fort Worth and the bishop for $1 million for alleged violations of privacy and harm to their physical and emotional ...