Of the 16 Poor Clares who were in the monastery when they split from the Church, only seven remain, awaiting an eviction scheduled for March 12. It is the latest chapter in a struggle involving real ...

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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 ...

Three Austrian nuns in their 80s have run away from the old people's home where they were placed and gone back to their former convent. Sister Bernadette, 88, Sister Regina who's 86, and 82-year-old ...

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 ...

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In 1926 medical mystery, Dickinson watched five nuns fall one by one — and feared the cause could be contagious, criminal or ...

A historic monastery in the northern Italian commune of La Valletta Brianza went up in flames during the weekend, resulting in 21 nuns being evacuated from the 17th-century building. As reported by ...

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. – Amid quiet lives of prayer, a handful of nuns have sliced out a niche as bakers of high-end cheesecakes, so rich and creamy in flavors of chocolate, amaretto and key lime that they ...