STANTON The story of St. Joseph’s Carmelite Monastery here at 200 Carpenter St. is a classic tale of the Old West, where the priests were about as rugged as anyone. Led by Father Athanasius Peters, ...

I’ve just been made aware of a sad situation that has been poignantly tracked in an online diary. There’s no political point to be made here, only a striking human story about religious life to be ...

The rich, secretive and centuries-old tradition of Trappist monastery brewing gets an American craft-beer makeover Saturday in the bucolic, rolling hills of central Massachusetts. Spencer Trappist ...

For many observers, the Dalai Lama's choice of the director of the Tibet Center in New York to be the new abbot of Rato Monastery in southern India is surprising, given the background of this ...

WILLIAMSTON, Mich. (AP) - The chanting of sacred songs fills a home, interrupted occasionally by the creak of wooden floors or the trill of wind chimes on the front porch. The smell of incense in the ...

Benedictine Monastery Ross Rulney, center, owner of the Benedictine Monastery, talks with Denice Blake, second from right, Corky Poster, far right, and Alison Miller, during an open public tour of the ...

The chanting of sacred songs fills a home, interrupted occasionally by the creak of wooden floors or the trill of wind chimes on the front porch. The smell of incense in the small chapel mixes with an ...

NEW YORK (RNS) The Dalai Lama has given Nicholas Vreeland, director of The Tibet Center in New York, a daunting new assignment. On July 6, Vreeland will be enthroned as the new abbot of Rato Monastery ...

The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 friars and 400 Christians. Yet the existence of the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, the fifth century ...

The last North American monastery in the dairy business is selling its cows. Facing a financial crunch, the monks of the Cistercian-Trappist Monastery in Rogersville, N.B., have voted to liquidate ...