Raised without faith, Stephen Williams embraced Zen Buddhism before a surprising encounter led him to Catholicism and Opus ...

From Asia to Europe, Africa, US and Canada, a food writer toured the kitchens of Buddhist and Catholic monasteries, a ...

For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...

Melleray was founded in 1832 by a group of 64 Irish Cistercian monks, who were forced to leave their monastery at Melleray in Brittany when the French revolution of 1830 led to the introduction of ...

The legendary French singer Charles Aznavour, who died yesterday aged 94, will be buried in a French monastery of the 12th century in Montfort-l'Amaury commune in the neighborhood of Paris, Interfax ...

My regular visits have guided how I approach my home and family life, which, though not a monastery itself, can emulate the regular rhythm of prayer, work, and fraternity.

said while it was first and foremost a monastery, it was also very much part of the wider community. Fr Dineen said the move was about looking to the future and the continuance of Cistercian life ...

almost two centuries after it was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland from the Cistercians’s monastery in Melleray, France. The monk, Vincent Ryan, was the first ...

The Cistercian abbey - which was founded by monks fleeing the French Revolution - will close ... the foundation stone of the new monastery was blessed by the Most Rev. WilliamAbraham, Bishop ...

Separately, in 1932, a community of Cistercian nuns (Trappistines) came from Stapehill in Dorset to establish St Mary’s Abbey at Glencairn, Co Waterford. Today, although some monasteries have ...

and the Cistercians found the land was a “stony waste” and “presumed useless,” said Hammond, citing monastery annals. “However, progress was made, four acres of farmland were cleared ...