The Poor Clares follow the Rule of St. Clare — which was approved by Pope Innocent IV two days before Clare’s death in 1253 — and take vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity. The Poor Clares of ...

To mark the anniversary of the founder of what came to be known as the Poor Clares, the sisters of the Order of St. Clare will welcome visitors to celebrate 9 a.m. Mass and join them afterward for a ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Monday met with a community of Poor Clare nuns, whose abbess died when the roof of their monastery collapsed in an earthquake in 2009. The cloistered nuns were able to ...

The Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy in Belleville was constructed in 1989, four years after St. Henry’s Preparatory Seminary closed, near Frank Scott Parkway West and West Main Street.

Through good times and bad they have prayed for all of us; a cloistered order of nuns, devout in their vows of poverty and seclusion. The Poor Clares are not often seen in public. Perhaps out for a ...

On a sunny Sunday morning, a diverse gathering of 30-plus people meet for Mass at the small chapel Uptown at the corner of Henry Clay and Magazine streets. Some light candles for special requests, ...

Five Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration will establish a new monastery this month on a mountain peak in Black Canyon City, located in the Diocese of Phoenix. Bishop Thomas Olmsted invited the monastic ...

“You, Lord, are blessed for having made me.” St. Clare of Assisi spoke these curious final words. After exploring Clare’s unusual spiri­tual vision for many years, these words continued to confound me ...

Not many rebellious teenagers become saints. But one of them did, and now a huge church named after her is being built on Daniel Island. At a price of $22 million, St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church ...

On Aug. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Clare of Assisi, a woman born into a noble family who was moved by St. Francis’ preaching and decided to embrace a life of poverty, founding ...