A basket of bread comes around, and the person next to me removes a chunk, holds it up and says, “Bread of life.” I accept it and do the same for the person on my other side. It’s the first time I’ve ...

The 12 nuns, living in the Carmelite Monastery, opened their doors for the public for the first time in 10 years Sunday and introduced many to their way of life. The “open house” allowed people a ...

Vatican City has new tenants: seven nuns from Argentina, who, at the request of Pope Francis, will live in Mater Ecclesiae (“Mother of the Church”), the monastery where Pope Benedict XVI resided for ...

In the town of the same name in the Harz region stand the impressive ruins of the former Cistercian monastery Walkenried. Once one of the largest and most powerful abbeys in all of Germany, the monks ...

On a sunny Sunday morning, a diverse gathering of 30-plus people meet for Mass at the small chapel Uptown at the corner of Henry Clay and Magazine streets. Some light candles for special requests, ...

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar has reduced many buildings to rubble – Copyright AFP/File Brendan SMIALOWSKI Bare-handed monks slowly pick ...

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on February 13 described monasteries as living centres of culture, learning and compassion, while stressing on collective responsibility to support them.