Consecrated men and women, who abandon themselves “like children into the arms of the Father,” spread “the ‘fresh air’ of authentic love throughout the world,” he said in his homily during Mass in St.

LOMÉ, Togo — Coffee production requires great devotion, especially if those harvesting the beans are Catholic monks. High in ...

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, ...

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 ...