See Vatican News to discover the life-story and message of St. Theresa of Jesus, Virgin, Doctor of the Church, discalced ...

The 412-year uninterrupted presence of the Discalced Carmelites in the Lucena monastery will end. The community of Discalced Carmelites of Lucena in Spain is being forced to leave after the order’s ...

The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Loretto will offer the seventh novena of 2024 to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Therese (the Little Flower) from Monday through July 16. Benediction of the Most ...

(ZENIT News / Salamanca, Spain, 30.05.2024).- The General Postulator of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, in Rome’s General Curia, has requested Pope Francis’ authorization to carry out a new ...

(ZENIT News / Managua, 01.25.2025).- The Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Province, a religious order with over five decades of pastoral service in Managua, have announced their ...

Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, announced on Monday that the Vatican had issued a decree of suppression to forcibly close the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in ...

CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis encouraged Discalced Carmelites to “discover new language, new ways and means to give greater impetus to the contemplative life that the Lord has called you to embrace.

Today, Bishop Stephen D. Parkes issued the statement below in regards to the Carmel in Savannah. Important to note is that the Bishop has no jurisdiction over the property of Carmel. The issue at hand ...

Longing for the past will not save contemplative religious orders from closing their monasteries or experiencing shifts in vocations, Pope Francis said. Discerning how to adapt the structures of a ...