CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Friar’s Table, the restaurant that opened late last year in downtown Cleveland, has scheduled a special dinner in July.

The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says Australia has gone into a "monastic silence" on anything bad relating to China. “We are absolutely lacking credibility on defence and now ...

Embark on a breathtaking aerial journey across Europe's most awe-inspiring monasteries. From the top-down shots of Bulgaria's Rila Monastery to the sun-drenched setting of Greece's Theotokos ...

Over the centuries, a magnificent monastic complex was built around the Sacred Cave where St. Benedict developed his religious rule.

From the Ring of Kerry to Skellig Michael, here are some of the most beautiful places in Ireland to visit in your lifetime.

However, monasticism in itself is not necessarily Christian; in fact, some of its non-Christian forms predate the time of Jesus Christ and still exist today among Hindus and Buddhists.

With his flowing red monk's robes, beaming smile and contagious laugh, the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has been the charismatic global face of his people's cause for decades.

The earliest form of liturgical chasuble resembles the so-called monastic style, a full-cut roughly oval garment often falling to the celebrant's shoe tops and at times furnished with a hood.

General Audience: Pope tells why he Chose Name of Benedict In his first general audience, which was held this morning in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 15,000 people, the Pope again gave ...

One of the most popular figures in the Russian Orthodox Church, the archbishop of Syktyvkar in the northern republic of Komi, Pitirim (Voločkov), died suddenly at the age of 65. He was a writer ...