The monks of La Trappe Abbey in Normandy may leave their monastery in 2028, the abbey announced—a move that could bring to an end 900 years of Cistercian monastic presence in Soligny-la-Trappe, ...

The monastic grange project at the Abbaye Sainte-Marie of Boulaur has aroused a wave of enthusiasm in the country and is already inspiring other monasteries in Europe. The community is establishing a ...

BERLIN – A Cistercian monastery that’s existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, because of a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...

The Cistercian Order has reaffirmed its commitment to its secondary school in Roscrea, Co Tipperary and will continue as patron as the monks prepare to leave the monastery and relocate to Mellifont ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

The Rev. Melchior Istvan Chladek had a passion for medicine that he shared with his biology students during his career at Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving.In retirement, he applied that same ...

Father Peter Verhalen (left) is installed as abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas by Abbot General Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, assisted by Father Ignatius Peacher (right). Jim Reisch - Special ...

At the end of a winding road in the Prades mountains, inland from the ancient Spanish city of Tarragona, stands the Cistercian monastery of Poblet, a place that is hard to get to and equally difficult ...

It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...