Cloistered nuns from Buffalo, New York, announced they have officially left the state for Florida in an effort to find "silence and solitude." "Prayerful greetings from sunny Florida! We are happy ...

When Emma Atkinson told her father that she wanted to be a cloistered Carmelite nun, he thought it was a fleeting desire.

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski In Youngstown, Ohio, a large portrait of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun, hung in the bedroom of Joseph and Mary Tokasz Ferenchak.

inhabited by Discalced Carmelite Nuns, in good canonical standing with the Church of Rome,” the letter said. The statement ...