BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale ...

SPENCER, Mass. — Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can sustain their ...

In June 1969, a monk of the Berryville Monastery in Clarke County, Virginia, began his daily meditation. The Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Cross had recently made a major change. The ...

At the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux, 42-year-old monk Brother Luis Cortez sits behind two computer monitors in his office, busily responding to phone calls while simultaneously checking website ...

SPENCER, Mass. (Reuters) - Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian ...

A Roman Catholic monk from Poland is visiting Wyoming churches on a mission to teach about the Divine Mercy of Jesus. Fr. Simon Stefanowicz is a member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, ...

FREMONT COUNTY • Hidden deep in the foothills outside of Cañon City, a steep, rocky terrain and towering evergreens flank a winding dirt road that eventually leads to an indigenous moat, where the ...

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international trade, researchers said. Lévêque, et al (2025) Royal Society Open Science At the end of the ninth century, a group of ...