The Poor Clares of Belorado, in northern Spain, are digging in their heels in a battle of wills over real estate with the Catholic Church. By Rachel Chaundler One afternoon this past summer, a car ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuns in the Franciscan Order of St. Clare live in isolation at a Belleville monastery, spending most of their time in prayer, ...

After more than a century, the Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, have moved out of their historic monastery in the 700 block of Henry Clay Avenue near Audubon Park, leaving vacant an ...

WESTWOOD — A brass bell rang out on a recent midwinter afternoon at the Monastery of St. Clare, calling together the property’s 11 nuns. Their monastic schedule starts at 6:15 a.m. with morning prayer ...

Tony Gelderman's love for historic architecture began as a child, walking to Trinity Episcopal School from his home on Camp Street in the Garden District. He remembers being enamored by the grand old ...

A Spanish court has ruled in favor of the Catholic Church in the eviction lawsuit against the former Poor Clare nuns of Belorado, ordering them to leave the monastery they are illegally occupying.

Re “Poor Clares’ monastery a case study in why Boston is short on housing”: Your March 6 editorial chastising the Arnold Arboretum’s public-spirited director, William “Ned” Friedman, failed to mention ...

The Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy in Belleville was constructed in 1989, four years after St. Henry’s Preparatory Seminary closed, near Frank Scott Parkway West and West Main Street.