As a musician, Sister Catherine Marie Schuhmann likens the expressions of the female Passionist vocation to "a symphony orchestra -- all these different instruments, all contributing to the one, ...
Pope Leo XIV blesses two lambs in the Urban VIII Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 21, 2026, the feast of St. Agnes. The lambs are ...
Buddhist monks continue a cross-country peace walk through Georgia on Friday. The group is walking to promote mindfulness, unity and compassion. Next stops include Monroe, Good Hope, and later Athens ...
A group of Buddhist monks on a journey from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. on a self-described "Walk for Peace" have reached the Atlanta metro area. The voyage will take the monks 2,300 miles ...
SALZBURG, Austria — Set against snow-capped Alpine peaks, the convent chapel at Schloss Goldenstein is candlelit and set for Advent. In early December, the mood was contemplative, a sharp contrast to ...
Saigon 1963. On the day of a Monk protest, around 400 Buddhist monks and nuns marched to the intersection carrying banners protesting about the Government oppression of their faith and culture. Then a ...
A Jacksonville church has received a $359,534 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help preserve its sanctuary, which was built in 1926. In October, the Fund for Sacred Places ...
In convents across Spain, the tradition of selling sweets is alive and well. Throughout the Mediterranean, a number of monasteries and convents sell sweets to help cover expenses, but the practice is ...
"THIS PLACE HAS AN ETERNAL CHARM." But this year’s harvest happened as a ceasefire agreement was reached, spreading a tenuous hope for peace — peace that olive branches have symbolized since the ...
Italian volunteers collect olives they just harvested at the Franciscan hermitage on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) JERUSALEM — Come October, monks and ...
Sister Marie Benedicte and Sister Colomba, two Catholic nuns, harvest olives in their monastery's garden on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) JERUSALEM ...