The Diocese of St. Cloud released a statement from Bishop Patrick M. Neary commemorating the loss of the pope.

He has told me, and several monastic leaders, that if young Catholic missionaries were assigned to do service work for a year or two at monasteries, not only would it help aging monks, but it also ...

But Amorgos' monastery serves another function too — a crucial reference point for locals, who seek the monks' help, both material and spiritual, as Eastern Christians have for nearly 2,000 years.

Above the spa town of Kamena Vourla, the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour has stood for a thousand years ...

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries, I jumped at the chance. In Puebla, Mexico, where I grew up, some Catholic churches are ...

She's actually based in LA as well as in Boston. So you opened the book in Lebanon at the Maronite Catholic Monastery of St. Anthony of Qozhaya in the Kadisha Valley. And you had a conversation with ...