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 snagy@bnd.com 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s an old saying that “Belgian beers are God’s gift to mankind.” It’s no idle boast. In Europe, especially in Germany and Belgium, beer and religion have been intertwined for centuries — and not ...

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 ...