Pope Francis urged a group of nuns with “vinegar faces” to steer clear of gossiping and not to speak with “the Devil” in an off-the-cuff rant. His Holiness, 88, spoke with sisters from the ...

ARLINGTON — The Carmelite nuns in Arlington have transferred ownership of their expansive wooded monastery to a new foundation amid an ongoing dispute with the Catholic Bishop of Fort Worth.

Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be." The 80 nuns at this monastery, an hour's drive from Kansas City, live a humble life. They hold all their belongings communally, devoting their time ...

Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen for The New York Times The frenzied car trip came after the nuns heard that the archbishop was planning to seize spare keys from janitors and change the locks on two of the ...