CULLMAN, Alabama - St. Bernard Abbey has announced three monks who will take their monastic vows in August. One monk is taking his first monastic vows, while two other monks are taking their final ...

The Casamari pharmacy, still in operation after two centuries, remains a powerful symbol of the connection between monastic ...

Pautler made his first profession of vows as a Benedictine monk in 2015 ... St. Bernard Abbey is a community of Benedictine monks founded in 1891 in Cullman. The abbey operates St. Bernard ...

Prior Peter Funk, who leads the monastery, said some were teachers, city planners or steel cutters before they took vows ... not to be afraid of it.” Benedictine monks take part in prayers ...

Benedictine monks sing at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Bridgeport. Credit: The Monastery of the Holy Cross Nestled two miles from downtown Chicago in Bridgeport, a neighborhood that once had ...

More than two centuries after its foundation, in 1454, the monks joined the Benedictine order. In 1560, the monastery suffered another setback. Becoming a Protestant country, the Scottish ...

The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid.

Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of obedience ... It was, in fact, a small group of Benedictine monks who laid the first stones of what would, over the centuries, become ...