Consecrated men and women, who abandon themselves “like children into the arms of the Father,” spread “the ‘fresh air’ of ...

Tucked into the woods near Covington, St. Joseph Abbey hums with a quiet rhythm — prayer, work and a deep sense of purpose.

KERENS, Texas - Here in cow country about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, amid scattered pecan trees and sloping fields of milkweed, six monks have come to live and pray. OSCAR DURAND/DMN John Tran, 8, ...

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 ...

The Archdiocese of Seoul announced it has received authorization from the Vatican to initiate the beatification cause of the ...

The Fort Worth Catholic Diocese announced Monday that a group of nuns at the center of controversy have been dismissed from Catholic religious life. CBS News Texas Reporter Jason Allen first broke ...

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale ...