PEOSTA — Every morning before the sun comes up, Brother Joseph is beginning his day. Brother Joseph, a Trappist Monk, is up by 4:30 a.m., heading out to start work in the New Melleray Abbey’s garden.

Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded delicately in his lap. As a monk at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, he maintains that Roman Catholic ...

The town of Spencer, in central Massachusetts, isn't well known for ... well, anything, really. But it's about to become internationally famous — at least in beer-drinking circles. Spencer is home to ...

In 1848, 44 Trappist monks from France braved the wide ocean to reach the New World. Upon arriving in New Orleans, they booked a steamboat to Louisville, Kentucky, where they journeyed inland to a ...

The monks of La Trappe Abbey in Normandy may leave their monastery in 2028, the abbey announced — a move that could bring to ...

Easter Mass returns to St. Benedict’s Monastery; spring silliness on the mountain; and climber rescued from Capitol Peak ...

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 ...