Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on outward appearances.

I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department ...

On the Kalogeroi islands of Greece, at the center of the Aegean, a Byzantine monastery thrived until demolished by a ...

Tucson’s iconic Benedictine Monastery opened its doors to Central American asylum seekers ahead of schedule due to larger numbers of families arriving at the border and being released by immigration ...

Silence is often associated with monastic vows. In the monastery, with its strict schedule and constrained setting, time and ...

Situated on the coastal dunes in Nuseirat Municipality, the ruins of Saint Hilarion Monastery/ Tell Umm Amer represent one of the earliest monastic sites in the Middle East, dating back to the 4th ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Andrew Day and Sumantra Maitra talk to Brandan Buck of the Cato Institute about the Trump administration's "peace through strength" slogan ...

21:25, Mon, Oct 20, 2025 Updated: 21:28, Mon, Oct 20, 2025 Activists demanding an Islamophobia definition will use it to water down counter-terrorism policies and immigration rules, a scathing report ...

SPRINGFIELD — Some Jewish residents in Western Massachusetts are taking issue with a definition of antisemitism that a state commission is using and worry it could restrict free speech by conflating ...

The San Antonio Spurs got a good one with Victor Wembanyama. At just 21 years old, he is the best defender in the world and one of the very best overall players in the NBA. Deep vein thrombosis ended ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...