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 ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

St. Benedict’s Monastery held its final public Mass on Jan. 11, with four of the five remaining monks transferring to other ...

WESTMALLE, Belgium (Reuters) - A gold standard for beer connoisseurs, the Trappist ale in Westmalle Abbey streams through state-of-the-art equipment with not a monk in sight. It's thoroughly in accord ...

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 ...

A Trappist monastery in Vina has earned yet another wine competition award, drawing people's attention to this Northstate ...

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 ...

Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded delicately in his lap. As a monk at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, he maintains that Roman Catholic ...