Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italy may have wine windows, but cloistered nuns have a sweeter surprise in Cáceres. Carrie Honaker In Cáceres, Spain, the ...

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 ...

In convents across Spain, the tradition of selling sweets is alive and well. Throughout the Mediterranean, a number of monasteries and convents sell sweets to help cover expenses, but the practice is ...

The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture. By María Sánchez Díez Reporting from Madrid Ana Garriga ...

Last week, while Cloistered, first cinema ever taken inside a Catholic convent (TIME, June 1) was concluding a successful Manhattan showing, newspaper readers beheld the first close-up still ...