At their peak in the 1960s, 60 monks lived, prayed and worked together on the property that overlooks the Shenandoah River.

A Catholic monk in Kentucky has come out publicly as a transgender man and claims to be the first person in his position to do so. Brother Christian Matson, 39, a Catholic hermit in the Diocese of ...

A Catholic monk came out as transgender this month, saying the church had "to deal with" trans Catholics. On May 17, Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic monk in Kentucky, told Religion News Service, ...

Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian ...

In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world. Within its medieval walls, a community of some 15 Catholic monks ...

A Catholic diocese in the U.S. has shown support for a monk who announced this month that he was coming out as transgender. On Tuesday, the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, issued a statement ...

A guide to some of our favorite handmade gifts to give and receive from religious communities and monasteries.

Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict. The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory ...

This week's statement from the Vatican reaffirming celibacy for priests prompted an essay from commentator Peter Manseau. Manseau grew up in a household where his father, a former Roman Catholic ...