Wiseman gave us a glimpse into life in an Anglican Benedictine monastery in Michigan, at a time of transition in American ...

While for many students at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent warm September Saturday meant a break from classes, college seminarian Sean Czaplewski and 35 other ...

An excavation report from the Israel Antiquities Authority reveals the discovery of a well-preserved Byzantine-period monastery and farmhouse at Naḥal Peḥar, within the modern settlement of Giv‘ot Bar ...

SAINT-WANDRILLE, France — The son of a noble family from the Verdun region of France in the seventh century, Wandrille held a prestigious position at the court of his kinsman, King Dagobert I. However ...

For over a thousand years, monks living in remote monasteries have consistently outlived their contemporaries by decades, and their secret wasn’t just prayer and meditation. Hidden within monastery ...

The Buddhist heritage of the Himalayas is alive in the chants of monks, the turning of prayer wheels, and the quiet ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

At the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux, 42-year-old monk Brother Luis Cortez sits behind two computer monitors in his office, busily responding to phone calls while simultaneously checking website ...

Egypt has once again drawn attention from the archaeological world after researchers uncovered a large monastic complex ...

Photo courtesy of Fundación Contemplare. Ana Garcia and Rodrigo Gonzalez wanted one thing: muffins made by nuns. The couple, in their early 60s, were waiting in a line coming out of a historic ...

Egypt has uncovered a fifth-century AD building believed to have served as a monastic guesthouse during the early days of Coptic monasticism in Beheira governorate. The discovery, made by an Egyptian ...

In the damp green hills of Brittany stands Abbaye de Boquen, a small 12th century monastery, where cloistered Cistercian monks have prayed and tilled the soil in silent serenity for centuries. In ...