Klosterneuburg Abbey near Vienna looks back on 900 years of tradition. Its  huge dome bears the imperial crown with the cross. By Wolfr...

The only remaining six monks will move to another monastery of their choice. Trier ( kath.net ) After almost 900 years the Cistercian ...

The Upper Swabian Benedictine abbey Ottobeuren is celebrating its 1,250th anniversary this year. On this occasion the monks, with at pers...

Sensation Pius Benedictine Saying Mass at Michealsberg Monastery At the end of the thousand year history of the Benedictine Abbey on ...

Germany. Yesterday, Brother Johannes OCSO made his solemn vows at the Trappist Abbey Mariawald in Eifel as part of a Pontifical Mass. T...

Edit: for years there are forces in Greece that would like to minimize and diminish the influence of the Greek Orthodox Church. One of the ...

Edit: want to help the Church?  Want to see what it's like to be a monk? Pray the Liturgy of the hours on line. (Le Barroux) The mon...

Edit: Monastic life is like prison.  It's like the army.  The worst of both worlds, perhaps. [Daily Mail] A convicted criminal who was...

Edit: The Benedictines were the tutors of Europe once upon a time. Now it looks like that chapter is closing on yet another Benedictine Mo...

Edit: what was uncertain before is now looking more certain, and these Abbeys are being sold for a song. "No one can understand this p...

The Monastery in the Ardennes was founded personally by St. Bernard of Clairvaux himself.  Now the talk is of savings accounts. Cloiste...

Editor: Mount Athos has some of the same problems as St John's Abbey.  There are Marxists on the Holy Mount, Monks with leftist ideologi...

The Greek Government is insisting on a stronger contract so that the Orthodox State Church and also the Athos Monasteries can reach their sa...

The cloister was founded in order to inform the soul of the way to life.   Will their walls receive the dark consecration to serve the cult ...

Its true, he was an Old Liberal.  But that is only one side of the coin.  German translation of Jurg-Werner Oberlasser. (kreuz.net) The si...

Moscow, November 10, Interfax – Russian archeologists have conducted the first excavations in the Holy Land since Russian research of Chris...

Tara Clemens CatholicAnchor.org Anchorage attorney, convert to Catholicism and Holy Family Ca...

88 Monks, average age 47: "It is above all the Liturgy and the Gregorian Choir as well as our loyalty to the Pope and the Church's ...

The old liberals command of the Church is increasingly without reservation. But the boring mush they produce doesn't attract anyone any ...

No solutions yet, but at least they are admitting that there's a problem. By John Thavis Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A t...