This juxtaposition of historic and contemporary, familiar from the likes of The Favourite and The Great, is more stark here ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...

Set in 1211 Italy, playwright Chiara Atik tells the story of St Clare of Assisi, founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (later called The Poor Clares), who renounced her family’s wealth and status and ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first “getaway” from Castel Gandolfo to visit the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of the Poor ...

As part of his summer break, Pope Leo XIV visited members of the Italian Carabinieri in Castel Gandolfo and the Poor Clares in nearby Albano Laziale.

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Liz Kettle, who plays Peppa, one of Clare’s servants. We discussed how she went ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on July 15 in the chapel at the Carabinieri (a form of military police) station in Castel ...

Remembering the anniversary of the proclamation of the Virgo Fidelis – Faithful Virgin – as the patroness of the Italian ...

The Poor Clares bought the Mercy convent, built in 1963 for 18 residents for $200,000, and sold their monastery — now with three chapels among its 115 rooms — for $150,000 to the Sisters of ...

There came a point where this play became as predictable as night follows day. Clare (Arsema Thomas), who was to become St ...