When dawn breaks over the 500 wooded acres of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Sparta, Wisc., the five Roman Catholic monks who live here have already begun their daily rituals of ...

It is a life much like that of any Benedictine priest in the Roman Catholic Church—but Father Kreinheder is not a Catholic. He is the first and only Lutheran monk in U.S. history. Despite his ...

As Christmas approaches, all through the world’s Catholic convents, nuns and monks are extra busy preparing the traditional delicacies they sell to a loyal fan base even in rapidly secularising ...