It’s a curriculum that will be forming you all around instead of overemphasizing one muscle in your human spiritual formation,’ says one user.

Modern trainees from the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth (MAPLE) are touring the U.S., offering ...

While for many students at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent warm September Saturday meant a break from classes, college seminarian Sean Czaplewski and 35 other ...

For over a thousand years, monks living in remote monasteries have consistently outlived their contemporaries by decades, and their secret wasn’t just prayer and meditation. Hidden within monastery ...

In the late 1960s, a young NCR reporter named Colman McCarthy saw the emerging decline of American Trappist monasteries and offered a diagnosis: The monastic life is not active enough. Looking back ...

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 ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes has been running a 240-acre abbey tucked in the woods just outside of Newport. But it was never ...

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, ...

A monastery on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula delivers delightful jam. On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship.