Our world seems to be increasingly fractured. Sadly, our Church is becoming increasingly fractured as well. We’re still reeling from the festering wound of the sexual abuse crisis. We’ve seen recent ...

If Catholics want marriages and the priesthood to be renewed, then we need a vigorous revival of monastic life. ABOVE: The abbot and monks of Holy Resurrection Monastery. BELOW: (1) Bishop David ...

Pope Benedict XVI today told members of the Vatican Congregation dedicated to helping consecrated religious that monastic life must challenge the faithful to love God before all else. The Holy Father ...

A Benedictine abbot who helped to revive traditional monasticism and Gregorian chant in France was buried Wednesday in the 11th-century Abbey of Fontgombault, the monastery he led for more than 30 ...

Bishop John S. Bonnici visited the Carmelite Monastery of Rochester to celebrate a public Mass in his new diocese.

In the rural town of Cottonwood in north central Idaho, lies the home of the sisters of the Monastery of St. Gertrude. The monastery, which is adorned with multiple crosses and red roofing, has been ...

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 ...

Tasmania’s first Benedictine monastery is gradually taking shape on over 3,000 acres of green pastureland, felicitously named Jerusalem Estate and abutting an eponymous creek in the island’s idyllic ...

The monks of La Trappe Abbey in Normandy may leave their monastery in 2028, the abbey announced — a move that could bring to ...

Trappist-Cistercian monks from the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux walk the vineyards on the abbey’s property in Vina, Calif. (Photo courtesy of New Clairvaux Vineyard) I cannot prove it, but I ...