The contemplative life of the Benedictine monks from Germany’s Tholey Abbey is about to be interrupted by the jet-setting art world. This September, three stained glass windows designed by German ...

The convent is in northwest Germany, near the Dutch border in Thuine, AP said. Although most Catholic nuns in Germany are elderly, AP noted, the convent’s Mother Superior, Sister Maria Cordis Reiker, ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins buried among the ruins of a medieval monastery. Known as Himmelpforten, the Augustinian Hermit monastery housed monks from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — Seventy-six Catholic nuns have ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Children were "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman ...

Gerhard Richter's choir windows at Tholey Abbey. (Photo courtesy of the Meiser family and Abtei Tholey) Three soaring windows took on light for the first time at the oldest abbey in Germany last ...

Archaeologists in Germany have just discovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins hidden in the ruins of a monastery. Archaeologists excavating a medieval monastery in Germany found four gold coins ...

The coins were found at Himmelpforte monastery in Germany, which was looted by rebel farmers in 1525, experts said. Robert Prust Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt Amid banging ...