Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After 22 years of silence as a Trappist monk in Iowa, Father Robert Valit, a self-proclaimed extrovert, decided to become a parish ...

In June 1969, a monk of the Berryville Monastery in Clarke County, Virginia, began his daily meditation. The Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Cross had recently made a major change. The ...

Several Catholic orders, ranging from the Carmelite nuns to the Capuchin friars, practice the rule of silence. None has observed it as strictly as the Trappist monks who, since their founding in 1098, ...

One dawn last week black-cowled Death came to a frail little man lying on a straw pallet in a hushed Kentucky monastery, oldest in the U. S. Soon black-cowled Trappist monks broke their habitual ...

After 22 years of silence as a Trappist monk in Iowa, Father Robert Valit, a self-proclaimed extrovert, decided to become a parish priest. Although he valued a life of prayer, Valit realized in 1972 ...