Carmelite Sisters

Chainsaw-wielding nun just ‘wanted to help out’ after Hurricane Irma
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- September 14, 2017
Sister Margaret Ann, principal of Miami’s Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School, saw chainsaws sitting in a school closet, and, after Hurricane Irma left a path of destruction through the city, thought “they didn’t belong there. They needed to be used.”
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Philadelphia just got a group of young Carmelite nuns
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- August 8, 2017
Carmelite nuns in Philadelphia offer their work and prayer for Christians throughout all of the world: the intentions of the Holy Father, the cardinals, and Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, but especially for the conversion of sinners.
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Nuns who ‘loved Romero before he became Romero’ carry on his legacy
- Church
- May 26, 2015
SAN SALVADOR — When he was shot to death in 1980 for his defense of the poor and downtrodden, Archbishop Oscar Romero’s loss affected countless people in El Salvador and beyond. Few, however, were touched quite as much as two Carmelite nuns who were in San Salvador’s Policlinico Hospital the
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Get thee to a nunnery? 'The Sisterhood' looks at what it takes
- Life
- November 25, 2014
It could be a fascinating look inside a convent and revelatory about what it takes to be a nun. Or it could be the Kardashians in habits and wimples. Three religious communities in the United States agreed to allow the Lifetime television channel film the discernment process of five young
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Chainsaw-wielding nun just ‘wanted to help out’ after Hurricane Irma