Photo courtesy of Fundación Contemplare. Ana Garcia and Rodrigo Gonzalez wanted one thing: muffins made by nuns. The couple, in their early 60s, were waiting in a line coming out of a historic ...
In the damp green hills of Brittany stands Abbaye de Boquen, a small 12th century monastery, where cloistered Cistercian monks have prayed and tilled the soil in silent serenity for centuries. In ...
A monastery on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula delivers delightful jam. On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship.
In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...
As Pope Francis prepares to visit Indonesia, the founding superior of a monastery in Java shares what life is like for Catholics in a majority-Muslim country. When Sister Martha Driscoll and nine ...
Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years in a Carmelite monastery. Her new memoir is Cloistered. Catherine Coldstream didn't grow up planning to become a nun. Coldstream was from London, and had lived in ...
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — “A year and a half ago, I could do anything — run the chain saw, cut up trees, use a backhoe.” Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded ...
A negative of monk holding a a metal sculpture he created at St. Benedict's Monastery, 1968. This and related images are in the Aspen Illustrated News on August 29, 1968 (pages 12-13), along with an ...
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 ...
A few years ago, I watched a kind old man, dressed in a simple white shirt and black pants, lean over and speak softly with his lunch companion. The companion, a man almost 70 years younger and ...
The nuns at the oldest Benedictine monastery in the province of Quebec, Canada, are known to live behind a grille. But, for nearly two years, the Abbey of Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes, founded in ...
The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...
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