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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

VINA, Calif. — Nothing happens quickly at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, situated in the Sacramento River valley near the small town of Vina, population 397. Here, where 26 Trappist monks live in ...

(RNS) — Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Sister Mary Bede was no stranger to quarantine life. Sister Bede and 22 other Cistercian nuns who live with her at Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie ...

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 ...

There is a distinct S-shaped curve that appears whenever innovations diffuse across a population. This curve, describing the number of adopters of this innovation, is a mathematical shape that nearly ...