Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a ...

It started when I was assigned a story to write about a religious sister professing her final vows. Within the year, I'd returned to the monastery to work on a writing project demanding more mental ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

A 17th-century monastery in northern Italy where recently canonized St. Carlo Acutis received his first Communion was in ...

TLC’s latest entry into the reality ring had me skeptical at the first mention. But after reading the synopses for the reality show The Monastery, I think this could be an interesting show. The ...

Yesterday I made pork chops instead of going to daily Mass. I also did the laundry and cleaned the bathroom. Ever since I got married three months ago, these mundane household chores keep monopolizing ...

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" — the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners. Now the site ...

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 ...

More than 20 nuns were evacuated from a historic monastery in Italy after the building went up in flames. A huge fire tore ...