For nearly 70 years, people from around the world visited St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass, a place many called “a ...

St. Benedict’s Monastery held its final public Mass on Jan. 11, with four of the five remaining monks transferring to other ...

In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world. Within its medieval walls, a community of some 15 Catholic monks ...

When COVID-19 led health officials to urge people to shelter in place, it even affected the already-cloistered monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers. Public prayers and services with ...

For the first time since 1835, the monks of the Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery in Spain — known for their Gregorian chant — have been forced to abandon the seclusion of their cells. However, this ...

The cover of Michael O'Brien's new book, 'Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks.' In the book, O'Brien shares his experiences growing up among the Trappist monks and the ...

Monks are individuals devoted to religious servitude, and they are not specific to any one religion. Here are the abbeys and ...

Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale yellow Trappist cheese made by ...

St. Matthew’s Monastery is recognized as one of the oldest Christian monasteries in Iraq and is said to be up to 1,600-years-old Yousif Ibrahim, the head monk at Saint Matthew’s Monastery, laments the ...

A colorful painting of a bald man with large ears and a mischievous smile hung on an otherwise unadorned wall at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville that was my boyhood home away from home in the ...

Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...