In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world. Within its medieval walls, a community of some 15 Catholic monks ...

For nearly 70 years, people from around the world visited St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass, a place many called “a ...

St. Benedict’s Monastery held its final public Mass on Jan. 11, with four of the five remaining monks transferring to other ...

When COVID-19 led health officials to urge people to shelter in place, it even affected the already-cloistered monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers. Public prayers and services with ...

For the first time since 1835, the monks of the Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery in Spain — known for their Gregorian chant — have been forced to abandon the seclusion of their cells. However, this ...

A question that may seem absurd at first merits further contemplation: Could missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help save the Catholic monastic movement in the United ...

Monks are individuals devoted to religious servitude, and they are not specific to any one religion. Here are the abbeys and temples of Louisiana.

A colorful painting of a bald man with large ears and a mischievous smile hung on an otherwise unadorned wall at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville that was my boyhood home away from home in the ...

St. Matthew’s Monastery is recognized as one of the oldest Christian monasteries in Iraq and is said to be up to 1,600-years-old Yousif Ibrahim, the head monk at Saint Matthew’s Monastery, laments the ...