BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale ...

SPENCER, Mass. — Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can sustain their ...

Unless they’re traveling by car, many visitors to the Monastery of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk—located about 140 miles from Philadelphia, in South Canaan, Pennsylvania—take a bus to Scranton. There they ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian ...

WESTON, Vt. - From early childhood, many of the men were drawn to the prayer, rituals, and wisdom of the clergy; some aspired to be priests and to help others. All have found their place at the Weston ...

Illiteracy and prejudice still maintain a fearsome gulf between Moslem Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS) and the Christian West. But miles south of the ancient Moslem holy city of Fez, high in the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A group of Roman Catholic monks in Iowa has donated a hand-crafted casket to the family of a 9-year-old girl killed in last weekend's mass shooting in Arizona. The casket for ...

In June 1969, a monk of the Berryville Monastery in Clarke County, Virginia, began his daily meditation. The Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Cross had recently made a major change. The ...

Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale yellow Trappist cheese made by ...