Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel narrates Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of ...

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

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 ...

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

Jesus prayed among the olive trees in the garden of Gethsemane on his last night before the crucifixion, according to the ...

Students from Catholic institutions of higher education are 7% more likely to view their careers as meaningful, 14% more ...

This lush, scenic region is still under the radar—but not for much longer. Learn why travelers seeking authentic Turkish ...

They add: “And every new season is an opportunity to begin again. … No matter how busy our external circumstances have us, we ...

King Charles III will pray with Pope Leo on Oct. 23 at the Vatican, marking a historic ecumenical moment, the first of its ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

Modern hermits seek solitude not to escape the world but to learn how to listen more closely to God, to their neighbors and ...

The call to a hermit's life, the pope said, is a call from God to devote oneself "entirely to him, to seek him and listen to ...