WESTMALLE, Belgium (Reuters) - A gold standard for beer connoisseurs, the Trappist ale in Westmalle Abbey streams through state-of-the-art equipment with not a monk in sight. It's thoroughly in accord ...

In the late 1960s, a young NCR reporter named Colman McCarthy saw the emerging decline of American Trappist monasteries and offered a diagnosis: The monastic life is not active enough. Looking back ...

And for the past 73 years — since he joined the order at age 17, answering a call from God, he said — physical labor has been an integral part of his daily routine. Lately, though, Brother Joseph’s ...

PEOSTA — Every morning before the sun comes up, Brother Joseph is beginning his day. Brother Joseph, a Trappist Monk, is up by 4:30 a.m., heading out to start work in the New Melleray Abbey’s garden.

Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in rural South Carolina, has inaugurated a new meditation garden memorializing the enslaved African Americans and Indigenous who once worked the land, part of a ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

In 1848, 44 Trappist monks from France braved the wide ocean to reach the New World. Upon arriving in New Orleans, they booked a steamboat to Louisville, Kentucky, where they journeyed inland to a ...

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 ...