In Irish tradition, some names were reserved for people with a certain hair color, and the boy's name Ruadhán was given to those with bright red hair ...

My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the Life ...

Important European universities began as Irish monasteries, built by literati that left Ireland with the education to teach the chaotic post-Roman world to read.

From India and Ireland to Japan and Mexico, Jody Eddy brings a sensitive gaze to spiritual practices and unique ways of life around the globe. Her book is Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the ...

An Oklahoma Catholic Benedictine community has opened what may be the first monastery to open in Ireland since 1536. The religious community in the priory has been steadily growing since 2012 and ...

The Benedictine Order still exists across Europe- and we will hear three tales-first from Father Pere Basile, a monk who ...

Colmán Ó Clabaigh, O.S.B., a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick, is spending the spring semester at Boston College as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies. A specialist in ...

Ireland had slipped beneath the marauders’ radar, for the imperial legions had never ventured there. So it was that Irish monasteries shone beacons of hope and enlightenment on the Dark Ages and ...

A group broke into an Irish Carmelite monastery during the daytime, vandalized its chapel and shouted slurs at the elderly nuns who lived there on Monday.

Armed with a metal detector, Michael Webb and his son Mike searched around an old Irish monastery in 1980 and stumbled across a fantastic find.