For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of monastic music, thanks to research into a rare 15th-century manuscript and a ...

Two people broke into the Belmont Abbey monastery and robbed the monks who live there, according to Belmont Abbey campus police. The two people, a man and a woman, first went to a campus ...

Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...

In the late 1960s, a young NCR reporter named Colman McCarthy saw the emerging decline of American Trappist monasteries and offered a diagnosis: The monastic life is not active enough. Looking back ...

BELMONT, N.C. — A woman and man were caught on video doing what some would call unthinkable: Stealing from monks at Belmont Abbey College. Channel 9′s Ken Lemon visited the campus to speak with ...

The Benedictine monastery of St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth near Guildford is making an unusual appeal for donations of surplus garden plants after one of its new novice monks expressed a desire to ...

Conception Abbey monastery is undergoing a total renovation. It’s the most significant renovation ever done of the building since the structure was built in 1880. The renewal of the 81,700-square-foot ...

The idea is to make tangible again the spiritual scope of the vine: its biblical roots, its monastic cultivation, and its once-central place in Christian Europe ...

Crackers and a salad at Le Sacré bistro at L’Abbaye d’Oka As someone who grew up Catholic, my primary touchstones for abbey life were the unfun nuns of The Sound of Music. An abstemious bunch, they ...