Nestled in the farmland of Port Tobacco, Maryland, stands the oldest Carmelite monastery in America. Founded in 1790, the Mount Carmel Monastery was the first Catholic convent for religious women in ...

Carmelite Father Michael Driscoll of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is seen in this undated photo. (Credit: CNS photo/Linda Reeves, Florida Catholic) Listen BOCA RATON, Florida — When Carmelite Father ...

Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, an early twentieth-century French Carmelite, is an important but lesser-known Carmelite author. This lecture introduces her spiritual doctrine, which is rooted in our ...

Religious reformer and mystic St. Teresa of Ávila lived from 1515-1582. The Spanish nun was instrumental in the reform of the Carmelite Order. She came into the world into a family of the petit ...

Some 40 years ago there lived with the Carmelite Sisters at Lisieux, France, a young girl, so young that only months of pleading gained her admittance to the sisterhood. In 1897 she died of ...