Sister Anne Bartol, a Poor Clare, prepares altar breads at the Monastery of St. Clare in Langhorne, Pa., in this undated photo. The nuns make up to three million altar breads at their bakery each year ...

CLYDE, Mo. -- Hidden in the quiet countryside of Clyde, Mo., is a thriving industry. Without a storefront and a fancy marketing campaign, the altar bread produced by the Benedictine Sisters of ...

This is an illustration for the Catholic News Service podcast “Communion.” The podcast series launched Oct. 5, 2021. (Credit: CNS illustration/Tyler Orsburn/CNS photo/Chaz Muth.) Listen LANGHORNE, ...

The sisters in Clyde were already running a school and a print shop when they branched off into altar bread production in 1910. "We were the largest religious producer of altar breads in the U.S.," ...

Sister Joy Ann Wege, a Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration, cuts sheets of altar breads into individual presider hosts in her order's kitchen in Clyde, Mo., in this 2016 photo. (CNS ...

CLYDE, Mo. -- When Pope Francis comes to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families next year, Sister Lynn D'Souza hopes to have the work of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration there, ...