The Poor Clares follow the Rule of St. Clare — which was approved by Pope Innocent IV two days before Clare’s death in 1253 — and take vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Parishioners of Clare R.C. Church marked the Feast of Corpus Christi when more than 400 churchgoers formed a procession in Great Kills and continued throughout the South ...

This fall the Mass was offered in St. Clare R.C. Church, Great Kills, last Sunday. It’s customarily held around the Feast Day of St. Luke the Evangelist, patron saint of physicians and surgeons ...

Sister Christina Neumann, formerly of West St. Paul, Minn., has made her first profession of vows in her Franciscan Congregation in Hankinson, N.D. Neumann, 28, made the profession Aug. 11, the ...

Sister Mary Laetare Nieberle, age 92, died on the Feast of St. Clare, August 11, 2022, at Ascension Mercy Hospital, Oshkosh, WI, after a short stay. Sr. Mary Laetare, born on May 23, 1930, in ...

Denver, Colo., Aug 11, 2023 / 10:13 am. On Aug. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Clare of Assisi, a woman born into a noble family who was moved by St. Francis’ preaching and ...