The monks of La Trappe Abbey in Normandy may leave their monastery in 2028, the abbey announced — a move that could bring to an end 900 years of Cistercian monastic presence in Soligny-la-Trappe, ...
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 ...
The Abbey of Saint Sixtus has dealt with a lot in its almost 200-year history. But more recently, the catholic monastery in West Flanders — best known for its premium Belgian Westvleteren beers — has ...
No Bible quote I post on social media engenders as much pushback as Jesus’ simple phrase, “Judge not” (or “Do not judge,” depending on the translation of Matthew 7:1). The immediate responses are ...