Valley of Our Lady Monastery, a community of Cistercian nuns in Wisconsin, is raising funds for a new monastery complex following a vocations boom. The planned monastery is being designed to house up ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to exchange your lifestyle and become a monk? It's a radical move by anybody's standards. One Cistercian monastery in Leicestershire is finding no shortage ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Father Peter Verhalen (left) is installed as abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas by Abbot General Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, assisted by Father Ignatius Peacher (right). Jim Reisch - Special ...

The tabernacle of Holy Thorn Monastery church in Valladolid, Spain, was forced open, and the Blessed Sacrament was stolen.

At the end of a winding road in the Prades mountains, inland from the ancient Spanish city of Tarragona, stands the Cistercian monastery of Poblet, a place that is hard to get to and equally difficult ...

Prices in Europe are so high, you say, that the only way anybody can vacation there is to live like a monk. Then why not spend a little time in the Benedictine Monastery of Santa Domingo de Silos, ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A monastery in the Charnwood Forest in the East Midlands of England is the subject of a new documentary that looks at the monks’ transition from farming to brewing, while ...

The Rev. Denis Farkasfalvy speaks to guests during The Catholic Foundation's 34th annual award dinner at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Feb. 19, 2016. He was selected as the 2016 award honoree for ...

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