ST. MARYS, Pa. (AP) – The nation’s first Benedictine convent, which opened more than a century ago, is closing after its 17 remaining members unanimously agreed it was time to dissolve the ...

In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world. Within its medieval walls, a community of some 15 Catholic monks ...

In past millennia, construction of a church could take centuries. Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame — currently in the final stages of being rebuilt after the tragic fire that nearly destroyed it in 2019 ...

An independent investigation, commissioned by the congregation of the iconic Paris neighborhood, reported that former ...

A popular nun who taught math at John Carroll High School in Birmingham and led the Benedictine retreat center in Cullman for decades has died. Sister Eleanor Harrison, who was born in Birmingham on ...

The Convent of Müstair, which stands in a valley in the Grisons, is a good example of Christian monastic renovation during the Carolingian period. It has Switzerland's greatest series of figurative ...

Still bound by vows and his heart's longing to the hills of northeastern Oklahoma, Benedictine Father Patrick Carter will spend the next several years working and ministering about the hills of the ...

Brother Alban Petesch has spent over three decades making bread for the members of Assumption Abbey in Richardton, N.D., as well as for visitors who stop by the Benedictine monastery. Brother Alban ...