Russian Orthodox monks in Head of the Harbor propose a church for their North Country Road property, but neighbors and preservationists said it would erode the area’s historic character. The Monastery ...

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...

For the Poor Clare sisters who left their Jamaica Plain monastery three years ago, life has been stuck in neutral while City Hall weighs a controversial redevelopment next to the Arnold Arboretum. The ...

Less than a mile and a half south of Ithaca College, off of Danby Road, a golden archway beckons travelers through its maroon pillars, beneath a gold eight-spoked wheel and up into a tight cluster of ...