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 ...

Before the enclosed grille of the Discalced Carmelite Convent in Cologne, a distinguished German philosopher nervously submitted to a test of humility: she sang a ditty for the brown-robed nuns ...

The Holy See has declared Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth to be "pontifical commissary" of the Monastery of Saint Joseph of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, according to a decree from the Dicastery ...

The long-promised removal of the Carmelite convent from Auschwitz has been indefinitely postponed by a Polish Catholic cardinal, a move that Jewish leaders say will severely strain Catholic-Jewish ...

The bitter controversy over a Carmelite convent on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp has suddenly pitted the Polish primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, against prominent members of the ...

Susan Estrich missed an important point in her article titled "Convent at Auschwitz." The Carmelite convent was moved to another location in 1993. Pope John Paul II was trying to convey a message of ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite convent at the age of 15, a request that she also boldly made during an ...