Still bound by vows and his heart's longing to the hills of northeastern Oklahoma, Benedictine Father Patrick Carter will spend the next several years working and ministering about the hills of the ...

FILE - A view of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery where Pope Benedict XVI lived after he resigned, inside the Vatican, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The converted monastery in the Vatican gardens that served ...

Vatican City has new tenants: seven nuns from Argentina, who, at the request of Pope Francis, will live in Mater Ecclesiae (“Mother of the Church”), the monastery where Pope Benedict XVI resided for ...

ROME (AP) — The converted monastery in the Vatican gardens that served as Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement home is getting some new tenants. Pope Francis signed a note Oct. 1 ordering the Mater ...

ROME (AP) — The converted monastery in the Vatican gardens that served as Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement home will once again house a small community of nuns. Pope Francis signed a note Oct. 1 ...