Nuns in the Franciscan Order of St. Clare live in isolation at a Belleville monastery, spending most of their time in prayer, never leaving to visit family, go shopping or even walk in the ...

Watch the sunset from Cunningham Lake on May 29, 2024 Just as when their order arrived in Omaha in 1878, the Sisters of Poor Clare are going about their cloistered lives on the outskirts of the city.

For 90 years, the brick monastery on the edge of the Arnold Arboretum was home to the Poor Clare Nuns of Boston. Rarely open to anyone outside the cloistered religious order, the three-story property ...