St. Benedict’s Monastery held its final public Mass on Jan. 11, with four of the five remaining monks transferring to other ...

Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...

Monks are individuals devoted to religious servitude, and they are not specific to any one religion. Here are the abbeys and temples of Louisiana.

For over a thousand years, monks living in remote monasteries have consistently outlived their contemporaries by decades, and their secret wasn’t just prayer and meditation. Hidden within monastery ...

For nearly 70 years, people from around the world visited St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass, a place many called “a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jesus prayed among the olive trees in the garden of Gethsemane on his last night before the crucifixion, according to the Gospel. Two millennia later, the mostly Catholic monks and ...

Monks are individuals who have separated themselves from society and live either alone or in an organized community, devoting themselves entirely to religious life. The practice of monasticism, in ...