A cinemactress’s southern plantation last week became a Trappist monastery. To Conyers, Ga., 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all ...

Runners make their way up and down the 103 steps of Monks Mound at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville in 2013. Steve Nagy [email protected] Q: I recently made yet another visit to the ...

Trappists, Sam Mulgrew tells me, “are very land-based.” We’re sitting in the office of Trappist Caskets, just a short walk from New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa. Sam is a layman, not a monk, but he ...

Pope Francis greets Abbot General Eamon Fitzgerald during an audience with Trappists at the Vatican Sept. 23. The pope met those participating in the Trappists’ general chapter. (Credit: CNS ...

Koningshoeven Abbey in the Netherlands has launched an online platform for aspiring monks: eNovice. This digital novitiate is a world first, according to the Dutch Trappists. The purpose of this ...

When Father Richard Layton struggles to live the 900-year-old Trappist ideal of silence, prayer and obedience, he finds inspiration outside the chapel in 12 graves marked by simple white crosses.

SPENCER — The monks live in a fieldstone abbey nestled in rolling farmland, supporting their modest lifestyle by selling religious vestments and jam preserves. But in recent years, the simple monks of ...

The road to Coolspring, in Virginia, is pleasant in early spring. Down the Blue Ridge slopes into the Shenandoah Valley, roadside plaques mark historic battles and gallant deeds of bygone days. At the ...

When the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance left Oka, Quebec, to escape suburban sprawl, they left behind an oversized, aging building. Their new Trappist abbey, nested in the forests and ...