Nuns, friars partner to explore future for iconic shuttered Hollywood monastery
Los Angeles, US RNS For nearly a century, the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood Hills served as home to a community of cloistered Dominican nuns who devoted their lives to study Scripture and to pray for those who came to them for guidance and penance. But the community dwindled as the nuns aged […]
A second life?: Thousands of churches close every year. What will happen to their buildings?
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how, as congregations close down, some church leaders are looking to give their former buildings a second life…