LONDON (AP) — The head of an abbey on a monastic Welsh island has apologized after a review found that a monk sexually abused children over several decades “in plain sight” despite repeated complaints ...

The head of a Welsh abbey has apologised for the “great suffering” endured by children who were raped by a late monk as well as the “culture of secrecy and cover-up” that kept his abuse hidden. It ...

Roman Catholic Trappist monks are expected to refrain from unnecessary speech, commit to hard labour and devote their lives to piety. So how on earth did one of the Order's most prestigious Abbeys, on ...

Father Jan Rossey, who last year became the Abbot of Caldey Abbey, which is off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales and home to Cistercian Order monks, admitted that ‘it is clear opportunities ...