Our family comes from a devout Polish Catholic faith foundation. Being so, Catholic teachings denounce horoscopes and astrology as a contradiction of the First Commandment, with the reasoning ...

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — In a letter to the Catholic members of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Bishop Michael Olson announced the founding of a new Carmelite monastery following years of controversy ...

Bishop Michael Olson announced Dec. 2 that the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life gave permission for the new monastery.

The concrete walls of the Carmelite Monastery between Highland Park and the sprawling cemeteries nearby are not only high and lined with barbed wire, but they’re also additionally protected with ...

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 ...

A religious community of 14 Discalced Carmelite nuns has moved from a busy street in Buffalo, New York, where their order has lived for more than a century, to the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, ...

HOLLADAY, Utah — On eight acres of land in Holladay sits the Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Monastery, a little-known sanctuary for the nuns who live and worship there. It's where just 11 ...