Our world seems to be increasingly fractured. Sadly, our Church is becoming increasingly fractured as well. We’re still reeling from the festering wound of the sexual abuse crisis. We’ve seen recent ...

If Catholics want marriages and the priesthood to be renewed, then we need a vigorous revival of monastic life. ABOVE: The abbot and monks of Holy Resurrection Monastery. BELOW: (1) Bishop David ...

Pope Benedict XVI today told members of the Vatican Congregation dedicated to helping consecrated religious that monastic life must challenge the faithful to love God before all else. The Holy Father ...

Trappist-Cistercian monks from the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux walk the vineyards on the abbey’s property in Vina, Calif. (Photo courtesy of New Clairvaux Vineyard) I cannot prove it, but I ...

A Benedictine abbot who helped to revive traditional monasticism and Gregorian chant in France was buried Wednesday in the 11th-century Abbey of Fontgombault, the monastery he led for more than 30 ...

In the rural town of Cottonwood in north central Idaho, lies the home of the sisters of the Monastery of St. Gertrude. The monastery, which is adorned with multiple crosses and red roofing, has been ...

(RNS) — Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Sister Mary Bede was no stranger to quarantine life. Sister Bede and 22 other Cistercian nuns who live with her at Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Vatican said in a statement Monday it considers the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington “extinct” in the eyes of the church. The Vatican’s statement and Nov. 28 ...

The monks of La Trappe Abbey in Normandy may leave their monastery in 2028, the abbey announced — a move that could bring to an end 900 years of Cistercian monastic presence in Soligny-la-Trappe, ...

Tasmania’s first Benedictine monastery is gradually taking shape on over 3,000 acres of green pastureland, felicitously named Jerusalem Estate and abutting an eponymous creek in the island’s idyllic ...

For nearly 100 years, the cloistered nuns of the Monastery of the Angels have been praying for the people of Los Angeles 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from a rambling four-acre campus just below ...