Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea was built in the 1750s ... I knew I had been in Bessborough for a while, but not about the Roscrea institution.” Paul said some of the nuns were profoundly institutionalised ...

Such was the destruction, that the nuns were never to return to Ypres to live and instead moved to the Benedictine sanctuary of Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, where their order remains. It was ...

In less than a month and a half, Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State. The change will take ...

Snow is super rare in the New Orleans metro, and so is a priest and three nuns braving the frigid temps for an epic snowball fight. And the battle was caught on camera. The Rev. Timothy Hedrick ...

The Abbess and community of Stanbrook Abbey, Worcester, have announced that ... The monastery's property includes several acres of land and an Edward Pugin church, and the nuns hope that a sympathetic ...

Third Avenue in Murray Hill fell a little quieter Monday after the unexpected closing of Abbey Tavern, a popular sports bar that first opened in the neighborhood six decades ago. A manager who ...

Michelle Dockery has opened up about filming the third and final Downton Abbey film in a journey that has defined her career and captured the hearts of millions. For the latest top stories ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m here because I’m a Negro, a nun ...

You could also visit Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, rated Which? members’ favourite UK attraction in our 2024 survey (admission is usually £21 for adults). Also listed are Culzean ...

More than 3,500 miles from the Capitol, Selby Abbey is home to the Washington Window, one of the oldest surviving examples of the coat of arms of America's first president, George Washington.

Sr Clare Crockett, a nun from Brandywell in Co Derry who died in 2016, is officially a 'Servant of God' following the opening of the cause for her beatification in a ceremony at the Cathedral of ...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii started erupting for the fourth time, sending lava fountains 200 ft (60m) into the air. Rocks and tephra (volcanic debris) can be seen falling, with geologists collecting ...