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 ...

TRAPPIST, Ky. -- Across the country for the next couple of weeks, many Roman Catholics will remember and honor the life of Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who died 40 years ago this month in a freak ...

PEOSTA — Every morning before the sun comes up, Brother Joseph is beginning his day. Brother Joseph, a Trappist Monk, is up by 4:30 a.m., heading out to start work in the New Melleray Abbey’s garden.

Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in rural South Carolina, has inaugurated a new meditation garden memorializing the enslaved African Americans and Indigenous who once worked the land, part of a ...

WESTVLETEREN, Belgium (Reuters) - Having a beer rated as the world's best and selling out in minutes should be a brewer's dream, but for the Trappists who brew Westvleteren ale at a monastery in ...

Leading a quiet and prayerful monastic life at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia, Brother Philip also manages the monastery’s bakery, Monks’ Bakery Goods. As the monastery’s website ...

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — “A year and a half ago, I could do anything — run the chain saw, cut up trees, use a backhoe.” Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded ...

SPENCER, Mass. (Reuters) - Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can ...

PEOSTA, Iowa (AP) -- The number of Catholic monks and nuns is growing too fast in developing countries while shrinking in the Western world, the Roman Catholic Church's chief Trappist monk said. ``We ...