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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

The nuns at the oldest Benedictine monastery in the province of Quebec, Canada, are known to live behind a grille. But, for nearly two years, the Abbey of Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes, founded in ...

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...

People walk into the St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass for the monastery’s last public liturgy on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. The monastery was sold to Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, for $120 million.

A 1,600-year-old Byzantine-era mosaic from a Christian monastery was recently put on public display for the first time, giving a glimpse into life during ancient times. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign ...

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 ...

After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12... A former nun explains why she ran away from her ...

The Vatican says it no longer recognizes an Arlington monastery at the center of a bitter monthslong feud with the Fort Worth bishop over allegations the head nun violated her vow of chastity with a ...