A guide to some of our favorite handmade gifts to give and receive from religious communities and monasteries.

If Catholics want marriages and the priesthood to be renewed, then we need a vigorous revival of monastic life. ABOVE: The abbot and monks of Holy Resurrection Monastery. BELOW: (1) Bishop David ...

A Divine Liturgy brought together four jurisdictions of Eastern-rite Catholic communities, as well as the local Latin-rite Catholic community, at St. Gregory Catholic Church in St. Nazianz. The Feb.

A former Catholic monastery that has been a Camden landmark since the early 1900s is being demolished to make way for parking lots for a nearby hospital. The historic stone structure, known as the ...

A group of religious activists disrupted a prayer session at a Catholic monastery in Haifa, Israel, last week, claiming the historic site is holding the bones of a biblical prophet. Israeli protesters ...

Three Austrian nuns have rejected a compromise to remain at Goldenstein Monastery, escalating a yearslong dispute that now ...

Correction: This story has been edited to correct the name of a sister involved in an English as a Second Language program. ST. JOSEPH — The Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict filed back into the ...

In a Monday statement, Olson described the "women" who live at the "former monastery" are "neither nuns nor Carmelites despite their continued and public self-identification to the contrary." Olson ...

CONCORD, New Hampshire — A Catholic monastery in Concord is closing, leaving its five remaining nuns with a decision to make. The Concord Monitor reports the Diocese of Manchester announced last week ...

Catholic monasteries are not known, let alone acclaimed, for their Halloween pumpkins. That may be changing, thanks to some enterprising northern Utah Latter-day Saint family farmers. In 1859, William ...

Pope Francis will become the first Pope to visit Mongolia when he travels to the Asian country’s capital Ulaanbaatar from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. Italian Cardinal Giorgio Marengo takes possession of his ...