While for many students at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent warm September Saturday meant a break from classes, college seminarian Sean Czaplewski and 35 other ...

Wiseman gave us a glimpse into life in an Anglican Benedictine monastery in Michigan, at a time of transition in American ...

Recently, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran an article on the decline of religious communities in Germany. It makes for depressing reading, telling of large religious houses with ever-dwindling ...

A siren screamed down 31st Street as six men faced one another in a dim church and began to chant. They chanted standing up. They chanted bent over. Above a thumping bass from a passing car, they ...

People walk into the St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass for the monastery’s last public liturgy on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. The monastery was sold to Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, for $120 million.

Quiet and contemplative. Solitary and devoted. Simple. These are some of the words used to describe the monastic way of life. For hundreds of years, Christian men and women around the world have ...

Patrick Henry offers a nuanced interpretation of how monasticism can offer a compelling critique of—and an alternative to—contemporary culture. In contrast to Rod Dreher’s doctrinaire assertion of the ...

When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople — whether Catholic or ...

Among lesser-known works by renowned 20th-century photographer, author and filmmaker Gordon Parks is a series of photos taken for a 1955 “Life” magazine photo essay documenting life among the monks of ...

Not your usual church steeples: the biogas plant at Munsterschwarzach Abbey. Photo by Renardo Schlegelmilch. “Integrity of creation” should be one of the top priorities for every Christian, Pope ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...