BERLIN (AP) — A Cistercian monastery that's existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... COVENTRY, England – Coombe Abbey is not an ordinary hotel. Never mind that No Ordinary Hotel is the name of the marketing umbrella for this and a sister ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to exchange your lifestyle and become a monk? It's a radical move by anybody's standards. One Cistercian monastery in Leicestershire is finding no shortage ...

Father Peter Verhalen has become the first American to serve as abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas. He is also the first Texan to serve in that role. He is the third abbot of the abbey.

The monastic grange project at the Abbaye Sainte-Marie of Boulaur has aroused a wave of enthusiasm in the country and is already inspiring other monasteries in Europe. The community is establishing a ...

After 883 years, a Cistercian monastery in western Germany is scheduled to close due to a shortage of monks. Financial costs and the small number of monks there led to the decision. After almost 900 ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

The Rev. Melchior Istvan Chladek had a passion for medicine that he shared with his biology students during his career at Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving.In retirement, he applied that same ...

When Ashley Bourne was younger, he saw cloaked figures disappearing behind doors – doors no outsiders were allowed to enter – at a Cistercian monastery on the coast of Wales. Ever since Bourne saw ...