The ancient Sumela Monastery in northeastern Turkey is ready to open its doors this Saturday to hold mass for the seventh time since resuming religious services after a pause of 88 years. Overlooking ...

The Vatican monastery where Pope Benedict XVI intends to live began its life as the Vatican gardener's house, but was established as a cloistered convent by Blessed John Paul II in 1994. When Pope ...

On Dec. 19, 1999, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama, was officially opened and consecrated. The opening Mass was celebrated by the Diocese of Birmingham’s bishop at the ...

MANILA, Philippines - Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop His Eminence Bishop Socrates Villegas recently inaugurated, blessed and officiated the perpetual closure of the Monastery of the Poor Clares of St.

MEETEETSE, Wyo.MEETEETSE, Wyo. — Plans by a group of Roman Catholic hermit monks to erect an outsized monastery in northern Wyoming have pitted neighbor against neighbor and aroused debate with ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — His name, Nimattullah, means “God's blessing” in Arabic. To the Lebanese he is affectionately known as Hardini, a simple monk whose creed was “the wise man is the one who can save ...

Sad news to read your article on the pending closure of Saint Benedict’s Monastery in the Capitol Creek Valley. All the residents of our Roaring Fork Valley who have visited the monastery are sad to ...

WASHINGTON — It was the pets’ turn to be blessed at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America in Northeast D.C. Saturday morning. It’s an annual event that takes place at the friary ahead ...