It’s a curriculum that will be forming you all around instead of overemphasizing one muscle in your human spiritual formation,’ says one user.

While for many students at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent warm September Saturday meant a break from classes, college seminarian Sean Czaplewski and 35 other ...

An unexpected cultural phenomenon has emerged across social media and real-world communities. Young men who once obsessed over protein macros and personal records are increasingly gravitating toward ...

For over a thousand years, monks living in remote monasteries have consistently outlived their contemporaries by decades, and their secret wasn’t just prayer and meditation. Hidden within monastery ...

Modern trainees from the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth (MAPLE) are touring the U.S., offering ...

For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes has been running a 240-acre abbey tucked in the woods just outside of Newport. But it was never ...

Photo courtesy of Fundación Contemplare. Ana Garcia and Rodrigo Gonzalez wanted one thing: muffins made by nuns. The couple, in their early 60s, were waiting in a line coming out of a historic ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

A monastery on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula delivers delightful jam. On a windswept coast of the Upper Peninsula, a small band of devoted monks is carving out a life that balances work and worship.