“When you walk through it today, the monastery is an interpretive center ... They got crossways with the leader of the Carmelite hierarchy, loaded their wagons at night and came south with ...

The monastery owns it, and it’s administered ... When it comes to religious hierarchy, most monasteries of nuns are of pontifical right, Bauer said, which is when religious institutes refer ...

Ahram Online asked MP Ehab Ramzy, who has served for years as the legal representative of St. Catherine’s Monastery, to explain the court ruling—praised by Egyptian officials but criticized by both ...

“The citizens of Montalto are shocked by the ecclesial hierarchy’s behavior, as they already took the diocese away from them, and, now, they let their precious monastery shut its doors ...

each bishop with his own clearly defined diocese and a hierarchy of officials. The Celtic-speaking countries had virtually no urban centres; the abbot in his monastery was more revered than the ...

The nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery put on the show of strength to mark the ... a monk who ranks only slightly below the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, trained women in ...