Many monks and nuns are almost as tethered to their smart devices as the rest of us.

Yes, Alabama does have monks. The state’s only male monastic community lives at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, home to 30 ...

Opened to the public in 2023, the Mysterium Fidei Museum beneath St Catherine's Monastery in Valletta invites visitors into ...

In 1848, 44 Trappist monks from France braved the wide ocean to reach the New World. Upon arriving in New Orleans, they ...

From sunrise to sunset, the unholiest monk lived in outright defiance of his vows. While others prayed, he schemed; while they labored, he snuck wine, broke curfew, mocked authority, and disrupted the ...

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 ...

An armoured knight on a lumbering steed; toiling serfs, tied to the lands of their lord, cloistered monks and nuns, lost in prayer. And don’t forget the scenery: high-walled castles, great gothic ...

Sister An Dang and Sister Corinne Uher stand in front of the damage caused by storm runoff on the Monastery of Discalced Carmelite Nuns on Wednesday. Credit: Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report All year ...

Michael Wayne Murray (Mick) was born on April 8, 1940, in Idaho and passed away in a care facility in Denver, Colo., on May 13, 2025. May he find a more peaceful and blessed beginning. He was preceded ...

While the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará spent only a few moments with Pope Francis, the encounter has stayed with them through the years. “Meeting him makes you want to serve God ...

I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...