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

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 ...

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

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

"The critical point was, again the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between the church and the state ...

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

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Frank Tavares, famously known as "Nun-Man," shocked the world with his unbelievable story as he lived as a Nun for 22 years. His journey as a nun began at the age of four after a tragic accident ...

For more than 30 years, a group of Catholic nuns unknowingly helped scientists uncover key insights into aging, dementia, and cognitive resilience. The Nun Study, a long-term research project ...