The haute-couture house has pledged to finance work on the 12th-century Cistercian abbey, which was a major source of ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with ...

Many of them indeed ate no more than was necessary to stay alive, mortifying the body to purify the soul. One Theodosius, a Palestinian monk, scolded a follower, who was to accompany him on his annual ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

And some young Catholic missionaries could be assigned to help aging monks and nuns at their monasteries. That assignment might foster the same type of fascinating intergenerational dialogue I ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Since its founding in 1881 in Spain, the Hospitaller Sisters have been a refuge of tenderness for the world’s outcasts, ...