After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12... A former nun explains why she ran away from her ...

Add the Carmelite nuns to the list of Buffalo transplants in Florida. The 14 nuns who had lived a sequestered life in North Buffalo packed up their meager belongings last week and boarded a bus ...

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Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years in a Carmelite monastery. Her new memoir is Cloistered. Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program ...

The Catholic Association of Propagandists hosted a conference Nov. 15 titled “What’s the use of a cloistered nun in the 21st century?” According to its statutes, the Spanish group is “a private ...

Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years in a Carmelite monastery. Her new memoir is Cloistered. Catherine Coldstream didn't grow up planning to become a nun. Coldstream was from London, and had lived in ...