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 ...

A Catholic monk came out as transgender this month, saying the church had "to deal with" trans Catholics. On May 17, Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic monk in Kentucky, told Religion News Service, ...

A Catholic diocese in the U.S. has shown support for a monk who announced this month that he was coming out as transgender. On Tuesday, the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, issued a statement ...

After 11 years, the Catholic Church in central Norway will have a bishop again. Fr. Erik Varden, a Cistercian monk and spiritual writer, will be consecrated a bishop at the Cathedral of St. Olav in ...

In Norway, as in all the Nordic countries, the Middle Ages have traditionally been considered a Catholic period — and while the country ranks among the least religious nations in the world today, the ...

The two Benedictine monks who arrived in Indian Territory on Oct. 12, 1875, came at the request of several Indigenous tribes seeking clergy to staff Catholic churches and open Catholic schools in the ...