National Catholic Register

A Lesson in Silence: What One Priest Gained From Living at a Carthusian Monastery

For four months in the spring of 2014, an American priest lived with and embraced the austere lifestyle of the Carthusian monks at Serra San Bruno in Italy’s Calabria region. While there, he wrote a ...
Time

Religion: Carthusian Solitude

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Smithsonian Magazine

French Monks Are Driving the Chartreuse Shortage

A group of French Carthusian monks are the only producers of Chartreuse—and despite high demand, they aren't planning to increase production. Karl Gruber via Wikimedia Commons underCC BY-SA 4.0 If ...
The New York Times

EVERY-DAY LIFE OF A CARTHUSIAN MONK; Severe Regime of the Members of the Ancient Order. They Are Rigid Vegetarians -- Spend Their Time Largely in Fasting and Prayer -- They Are ...

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Rutland Herald

Film gives glimpse inside monastery

ARLINGTON — A documentary about life in the Carthusian monastery on Mount Equinox, made by a team of Rutland filmmakers, to be screened at the visitors center outside the monastery, gives the outside ...
National Catholic Register

Franciscan University’s Austrian Campus Houses Ukrainian Refugees

14th-century Carthusian monastery in the foothills of the Alps offers shelter and spiritual solace. Clockwise from left: A refugee mother and two children from Ukraine arrive at Franciscan ...
Long Island Press

Southold Social’s New Cocktail, The Monk’s Elixir, Named for Carthusian Monks

What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...
The Washington Post

Chartreuse liqueur’s popularity has soared. But how do you market the elixir without offending the monks who make it?

In the 11th century, Bruno of Cologne, a renowned cleric and intellectual from a noble German family, rejected the chance to become a bishop. Forswearing the career bump of higher placement in the ...