This liturgical form of prayer draws us closer to God throughout the day, uniting us with clergy, religious and laity around the world in the praise of God. The monks ...

LAGUNA BEACH Prayers for compassion filled the Neighborhood Congregational Church this week, taking the form of an intricate sand painting and a butter sculpture. Buddhist monks from the Gaden Jangtse ...

In the central Italian countryside, at the edge of the Umbrian woods just outside Norcia, a group of Benedictine monks prays and works from well before the sun rises until it sets. This much has not ...

I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...

SPARTA, Wis. — Eight times a day, the Rev. Bernard McCoy solemnly chants prayers in Latin from 100-year-old books in the chapel of his monastery. Then it’s back to his computer and telephone, to run ...

The Basilica of St. Benedict in the ancient city of Norcia is seen Oct. 31 following an earthquake in central Italy. (Credit: CNS pohoto/Remo Casilli, Reuters.) Listen ROME – Before a series of ...

SPARTA, Wis. -- Eight times a day, the Rev. Bernard McCoy solemnly chants prayers in Latin from 100-year-old books in the chapel of his monastery. Then it is back to his computer and telephone, to run ...

DELAND -- The monks already spend much of their time in prayer, but for the last two years they've added an unusual request to their daily devotion: help with a construction project that a contractor ...

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Upon his arrival at Sant’Anselmo Church, Pope Leo was welcomed by the abbot primate of the Benedictines, Jeremias Schröder, ...