This 3D virtual tour shows The Cloisters museum complex in northern Manhattan from above, surrounded by the greenery of Fort Tryon Park near the Hudson River. The medieval-style stone buildings and ...

La Muerte Niña, a funerary ritual for deceased children, may seem a little creepy. But it's a traditional Mexican practice.

It’s a modern solution to an age-old issue. Monasteries are turning to Etsy-style e-commerce and renovating their convents to appeal to the Airbnb crowd.

On Feb. 7, the Poor Clare Monastery in Andover was a place of joy, warmth, and happy smiles as people gathered in the nuns' chapel to celebrate the solemn perpetual profession of Sister Mary Julia ...

From coming-of-age tales to tragicomedies, period dramas remain a beloved genre — these contemporary masterpieces stand among the best.

The Villa de Chantal served as a Catholic boarding and day school from 1901 to 1978. It was the vision of an order of cloistered nuns known as the Sisters of the Visitation who came to Rock Island ...

Today the Church celebrates the feast of one of the greatest Americans of all time, one of a small number elevated to the eternal hall of fame, someone who shows us how to sell all the pearls one has ...

On this Sunday's Lyric Feature, writer Sara Baume and radio producer Regan Hutchins visit the nuns at St Mary's Abbey, the only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland, located in Glencairn, County ...

My absurd experience advising nuns about fire safety in a beautiful Georgian convent taught me the most important thing about a building is the life inside it The Convent of the Sacred Heart in ...

This BBC take on the warm, funny books renders various characters totally cheerless. It works fine as a drama, but the humour of the novels is sadly missing Any fan of Marian Keyes (and we are legion, ...