STANTON The story of St. Joseph’s Carmelite Monastery here at 200 Carpenter St. is a classic tale of the Old West, where the priests were about as rugged as anyone. Led by Father Athanasius Peters, ...

I’ve just been made aware of a sad situation that has been poignantly tracked in an online diary. There’s no political point to be made here, only a striking human story about religious life to be ...

For many observers, the Dalai Lama's choice of the director of the Tibet Center in New York to be the new abbot of Rato Monastery in southern India is surprising, given the background of this ...

Ladan Cher visits St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mt. Sinai and talks about the monks’ manuscript preservation efforts: Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St.

The rich, secretive and centuries-old tradition of Trappist monastery brewing gets an American craft-beer makeover Saturday in the bucolic, rolling hills of central Massachusetts. Spencer Trappist ...

NEW YORK (RNS) The Dalai Lama has given Nicholas Vreeland, director of The Tibet Center in New York, a daunting new assignment. On July 6, Vreeland will be enthroned as the new abbot of Rato Monastery ...

The chanting of sacred songs fills a home, interrupted occasionally by the creak of wooden floors or the trill of wind chimes on the front porch. The smell of incense in the small chapel mixes with an ...

The last North American monastery in the dairy business is selling its cows. Facing a financial crunch, the monks of the Cistercian-Trappist Monastery in Rogersville, N.B., have voted to liquidate ...