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 ...
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 ...
A colorful painting of a bald man with large ears and a mischievous smile hung on an otherwise unadorned wall at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville that was my boyhood home away from home in the ...
Brother Joseph picks peaches in the courtyard at New Melleray Abbey, a Trappist Monastery near Dubuque, on Sept. 8. As part of his work at the Abbey, Brother Joseph maintains a small orchard of apple ...
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 ...
This Halloween, my favorite Catholic cemetery, off the beaten path in rural Northern Utah, has transfigured into a much happier haunt. Pioneer monks from Kentucky's Gethsemani Abbey, where Thomas ...
In the picturesque little valley just minutes from Ogden and the Wasatch Front, where Utah’s rapid growth and development can be seen firsthand, one piece of land has resisted change. Tucked in the ...
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale ...
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