The Carmelite nun sat on the opposite side of a table with her friend. A cloistered nun is a woman who has taken religious vows and lives a life of seclusion, typically within a monastery or convent.

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries, I jumped at the chance. In Puebla, Mexico, where I grew up, some Catholic churches are ...

“So I was in college when the desire to enter cloistered life developed,” the nun said, explaining that when she was still a child, she actually did not have the intention to become a religiou ...

28, forcing some 30 cloistered nuns belonging to the Order of St. Clare to leave their monasteries. An ecclesiastical source cited by the Nicaraguan newspaper states that the dictatorship’s ...

As Christmas approaches, all through the world’s Catholic convents, nuns and monks are extra busy preparing the traditional delicacies ... one of the 10 cloistered nuns of the Perpetual Adorers ...

Courtney Sullivan, a novelist and lapsed Catholic who has discovered the beauty and power of the Benedictine way of life, by developing a relationship with cloistered Benedictine nuns at a convent.

The cloistered nuns from the Convent of the Little Sisters ... The program so exaggerates traditional private-eye brouhahas that it can be taken for parody. And it is done so deadpan that it ...