Opened to the public in 2023, the Mysterium Fidei Museum beneath St Catherine's Monastery in Valletta invites visitors into ...

Andrew Jotischky’s new book is a history of monastic life from early Christianity - Alamy In seventh-century Emesa, Syria, a man walked through town tugging a dead dog on the end of a rope. He ...

On top of Mount Equinox, 17 monks from all over the world live quietly, dedicating their lives to silence, solitude and contemplation. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, America s only ...

Dominican nuns provide a witness to the value of stillness and quiet contemplation. The Dominican nun reads a book on the grounds of the Monastery of Our Lady of Grace in North Guilford, Connecticut. ...

Hiding among the fish barrels, Katharina von Bora must have realized she would have a remarkable life. A nun dissatisfied with cloistered life, she wrote to Martin Luther, asking for help escaping ...

The abbey is unusual for being a cloistered community — just about 5 percent to 10 percent of nuns in the United States are cloistered, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate ...

BETHLEHEM — On a proscenium pillar that frames the stage of The Gary-The Olivia Theater at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, the word “Godspell” forms an arch over a rose-colored heart. It is a vestige of ...

Mother Oda shared how their cloistered, contemplative life is 'rooted deeply in the liturgy.' A sister of the Norbertine Canonesses of Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph walks with some of the priory’s ...

I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...

The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture. By María Sánchez Díez Reporting from Madrid Ana Garriga ...

If you know, you know. Tucked away in Madrid is a centuries-old culinary secret: cookies baked by cloistered nuns. Their recipes are more than food — they’re history you can taste. To find them, you ...