In a region with no shortage of land use issues and controversies, the fate of a 3,700-acre property high in the Capitol ...

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Dom Edward Corbould, who has died aged 92, was Ampleforth’s longest-serving housemaster, dedicating 36 years to the task of supervising St Edward’s House at the North Yorkshire boarding school.As a ...

A native of Fairmont, West Virginia, Paul Quenon entered Gethsemani as a novice in 1958. Thomas Merton was his novice master.

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County, Ky. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

Parishioners also gave thanks for the early pastoral care of the abbot and monks of the Trappist Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Rockdale County. Father Rafael Castaño, pastor of St. Pius X, and Abbot ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a science-fiction writer's dream. Seven Earth-sized worlds orbit a red dwarf star just 40 light-years away. Three of those worlds are within the habitable zone of the star.

Founded in the 8th century, Disentis Monastery is today the spiritual and educational center of the Upper Rhine Valley (Vorderrheintal). A cultural history exhibition depicts the history of the ...

More than 50 sisters live at the Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, which also houses a chapel and offices. “We want to call Cliff Maloney to account for his blatantly false post that accuses our ...

Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the New Skete monastery, where he directs the dog breeding program that has provided both ...

Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night. The day before, a Republican operative in the ...