BERLIN (AP) - A Cistercian monastery that's existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HECLA – Two bald cypress trees were dedicated and blessed Sunday at St. Mary’s Cistercian Monastery in honor of two monks who have served there. The two trees were planted to replace others that were ...
At the end of a winding road in the Prades mountains, inland from the ancient Spanish city of Tarragona, stands the Cistercian monastery of Poblet, a place that is hard to get to and equally difficult ...