JERUSALEM – Each October, monks and nuns gather olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden – where, according to ...

Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel ...

A reliquary containing most of the bones of St. Therese of Lisieux will be traveling to Arkansas next month, part of a ...

It’s not unusual to see a gaggle of neighborhood children walking together down the street, picking up peers at houses along ...

Pluscarden Abbey has always intrigued me. Just 15 minutes from my home in Elgin, it is Britain’s only medieval monastery ...

And then, 150 years after his death, his name became mud. Evagrius’ writings were suppressed and destroyed — only to turn up ...

At place where Jesus was said to have spent his last night before crucifixion, devout Christians and volunteers keep alive a ...

This particular unit, no. 207, contains the church’s original choir loft as well as a private bell tower with sweeping views ...

Curator Earle Havens shares highlights from Johns Hopkins' collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—and his team's ...

Extending a cultural fight that started years ago, Caltrans has quietly demolished a statue of 18th-century missionary and ...

Twelve Churches is a survey of Christian attitudes toward various topics — beauty, power, and money — as they were expressed in various places.

But defiant, independent and even rebellious nuns are hardly a new phenomenon. The 2020s especially have seen nuns defy the often unexamined assumptions that religious women, hidden behind their ...