Blanche McIntyre’s production plays up to the wit of Atik’s writing and features a poised and confident stage debut from Arsema Thomas, whose “super-cute” Valley Girl Clare is slowly radicalised. But ...

Set in 1211 Italy, playwright Chiara Atik tells the story of St Clare of Assisi, founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (later called The Poor Clares), who renounced her family’s wealth and status and ...

Riding in a gray Volkswagen sedan, the pope first went to the local headquarters of the Carabinieri, a branch of the Italian ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first “getaway” from Castel Gandolfo to visit the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of the Poor ...

As part of his summer break, Pope Leo XIV visited members of the Italian Carabinieri in Castel Gandolfo and the Poor Clares ...

By Devin Watkins As he continued his summer holidays in Castel Gandolfo on Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV presided at Mass in the ...

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Liz Kettle, who plays Peppa, one of Clare’s servants. We discussed how she went ...

These nuns may be in their 80s, but they are still fighting for social justice – with a new generation of leadership at their ...

From a 'nunfluencer' in Mendham to a social media coordinator in North Haledon, a new wave of tech-savvy nuns is helping to ...

Developer John Holland plans to transform the Poor Clare Nuns Monastery in Jamaica Plain into 38 units of senior housing and build an 85-unit condo building behind the existing monastery.

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...

St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.