(RNS) — Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Sister Mary Bede was no stranger to quarantine life. Sister Bede and 22 other Cistercian nuns who live with her at Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie ...

BERLIN – A Cistercian monastery that’s existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, because of a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...

Father Peter Verhalen (left) is installed as abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas by Abbot General Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, assisted by Father Ignatius Peacher (right). Jim Reisch - Special ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brother Lawrence Brophy in his room at the Cistercian monastery at Our Lady of Dallas in Irving on March 8, 2010. Brophy will travel to Rome next year to continue his studies to become a priest. After ...

VINA, Calif. — Nothing happens quickly at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, situated in the Sacramento River valley near the small town of Vina, population 397. Here, where 26 Trappist monks live in ...

Diep entered the monastery in 1998 and took his solemn vows in 2005. The monastery's superior later made contact with him but failed to persuade him to return as he gave various reasons not to, Father ...