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 ...

Carmelite nuns came to Erie in 1957 and prayed here for more than 60 years until their monastery closed. Now the building has been torn down.

The local Church celebrated with gratitude the significant anniversary of the religious profession of one of the Discalced ...

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 ...

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 to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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