Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a view into 18th-century monastic life.

It means we’ve stumbled into a kind of post-familial fog — a secular monasticism dressed in sweatpants and matted with dog hair. Today, however, the soundtrack is fading, and fast.

Christian monasticism dates back to about the late third century. It is difficult to ascribe its earliest form to any one person, but most historians agree it was a man by the name of Antony, born ...

The Holy Father is thought to be the first math major to become pope – and math aficionados say it’s about time.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece, authorities said Friday.

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country. By Ellen Barry Dylan Lopez Contreras was arrested by ...

Today, Wednesday 4 June, marks the 500th anniversary of the Bayham Abbey Uprising, where more than 100 men launched a violent protest against Cardinal ...

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 ...

There are plenty of options – old and new – to pick from this weekend, from recent viral hits like Saltburn to all-time classics such as Jaws, so there really is something for everyone.

The theme of community, so dear to monasticism, how central is it to the Church today? It is a very strong vocational theme. It is Augustinian, but Saint Benedict internalised it, and based on the ...