Feb. 6—The Diocese of Manchester has purchased the former Magdalen College campus in Warner, church officials announced Thursday. The 135 acres of land and several buildings, which includes the Our ...

The convent where Philomena was sent was a “Magdalen Laundry,” one of many convents across Ireland where thousands of girls – pregnant out of wedlock or otherwise deemed morally wayward – were placed ...

Hard labor, enforced silence, and imprisonment - that was the sentence for more than 10,000 young Irish women sent off to the church-run Magdalen Laundries between 1922 and 1996, a dark chapter in ...

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, a small Catholic institution in New Hampshire, will close at the end of the academic year due to low enrollment and financial challenges, WMUR 9 reported. The ...

A statue of Mary outside the Our Lady of Queen of Apostles Chapel on the campus of Magdalen College in Warner on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. A statue of Mary outside the Our Lady of Queen of Apostles ...