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 ...

SPENCER, Mass. — Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can sustain their ...

Unless they’re traveling by car, many visitors to the Monastery of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk—located about 140 miles from Philadelphia, in South Canaan, Pennsylvania—take a bus to Scranton. There they ...

A Roman Catholic monk from Poland is visiting Wyoming churches on a mission to teach about the Divine Mercy of Jesus. Fr. Simon Stefanowicz is a member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian ...

In June 1969, a monk of the Berryville Monastery in Clarke County, Virginia, began his daily meditation. The Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Cross had recently made a major change. The ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A group of Roman Catholic monks in Iowa has donated a hand-crafted casket to the family of a 9-year-old girl killed in last weekend's mass shooting in Arizona. The casket for ...

Illiteracy and prejudice still maintain a fearsome gulf between Moslem Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS) and the Christian West. But miles south of the ancient Moslem holy city of Fez, high in the ...

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 yellow Trappist cheese made by ...