This historic French monastery was originally built in the 18th century as a seminary where priests were trained in religion and church leadership. As the number of religious students declined over ...

DIJON, France (AFP) — A French monastery in the heart of Burgundy launched an emergency online sale Friday to get rid of thousands of its prized artisanal cheeses, which are languishing in its cellars ...

A fire on Sunday tore through the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu, destroying the centuries-old French heritage site's main building, the local mayor and firefighters told AFP. Anne Fraipont, mayor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monasteries have served as the home base of monks and nuns for centuries. Now you too can live like the holy. A century-old estate ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Earlier in the year, Paris-based Michel Blazy installed a series of foam sculptures inside the Cistercian monastery in France. The curious installation is housed inside the 13th-century structure and ...

A fire on Sunday tore through the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu, destroying the centuries-old French heritage site's main building, the local mayor and firefighters told AFP.