Raymond Arroyo, Mother Angelica’s biographer and host of EWTN’s ‘The World Over,’ hugs the body of the Poor Clare nun during ... of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, located in Hanceville ...

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 ...

Known as the Poor Clares, they don’t have TV sets, radios or internet. Private telephone use is prohibited, except in emergencies. But the monastery has electricity, and rising power bills have ...