The head of the Cistercian Order in Ireland has said he knows the decision to relocate the monastic community from Co Tipperary to Co Louth will be met with "great disappointment locally". Dom Rufus ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A monastery in the Charnwood Forest in the East Midlands of England is the subject of a new documentary that looks at the monks’ transition from farming to brewing, while ...

An Irishman has been appointed head of the worldwide Cistercian Order. Dom Eamon Fitzgerald, the Abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey, has been elected Abbot General of the Cistercian Order of the Strict ...

Wisconsin Cistercians attribute their growing membership to young women seeking to live radically for God in a religious vocation. Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery is attracting millennial ...

A Cistercian abbey disbanded by the Vietnamese government almost three decades ago lives on as three new communities. The communist government in 1978 confiscated the abbey in Ho Chi Minh City and ...

IN the midst of tight regulations governing social distancing and self-isolation as society struggles to work through the Covid-19 crisis, Cistercian monks and nuns in Ireland, and the world over, are ...