A monk used a pet tortoise to entice children and then sexually abuse them at a monastery on a remote holy island, a report ...

Victims of child sexual abuse were treated in a heartless, hostile and cruel way by monks on a remote island, a safeguarding ...

A wealth of midwestern natural resources, combined with the Trappist monks of New Melleray's need to financially support themselves through their own labor and maintain a life steeped in prayer ...

Caldey Abbey in Wales has apologised for historical child sex abuse perpetrated by a monk between the 1960s and 1990s.

In 1947, 32 Trappist monks seeking refuge after World War II settled in the Ogden Valley just outside of Huntsville. Arriving ...

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 works with the consecrated men as the general ...

A guide to some of our favorite handmade gifts to give and receive from religious communities and monasteries.

The only monks in the UK to brew an officially recognised Trappist beer say they are unable to satisfy demand. The brewery at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, near Coalville, Leicestershire, was set up ...

The blackened head was found by a recently discharged Japanese soldier who happened to be also a Trappist monk. Below is information taken from a pamphlet published in Japanese at the Urakami ...

The story of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, in the last year of his life. The documentary explores his home at the Abbey of Gethsemani, travels across America in the ...