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 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s the fortnight before Christmas and all through the world’s Catholic convents, nuns and monks are extra busy preparing the traditional delicacies they sell to a loyal fan base ...

In a world of fast food and big businesses, monks and nuns are quietly praying and working. They work to support themselves — and because manual labor is edifying to the soul. St. Benedict said, “To ...

Pope Francis said this love can be seen in the lives of contemplative monks and nuns who work and pray in silence for the whole Church. Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peter’s Square on ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...

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 ...

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Nun Maria de Jesus Frayle, 24, holds a tray with fried Christmas figures at the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament convent in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. It's the fortnight ...