VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis told Cistercians on Monday to embrace “the greater poverty of spirit and goods in order to be more available to the Lord.” “Today the experience of encountering diversity ...

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Wisconsin Cistercians attribute their growing membership to young women seeking to live radically for God in a religious vocation. Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery is attracting millennial ...

IN the midst of tight regulations governing social distancing and self-isolation as society struggles to work through the Covid-19 crisis, Cistercian monks and nuns in Ireland, and the world over, are ...

In his audience with the participants in the General Chapter of Order, Pope Francis urges them to continue their "assiduous prayer" as “lovers of prayer” dedicated to "sobriety" to overcome today's ...

Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian ...

The religious orders of the Cistercians built some of Europe’s finest architectural stuctures. Simple yet noble, these buildings were created for function rather than visual delight. One of the most ...

It is over 700 years since Cistercian monks first set foot on Irish soil, founding Mellifont Abbey outside Drogheda and soon spread throughout the country founding 40 abbeys for men. The Cistercians ...

Father Roch Kereszty, originally from Hungary, has been at Cistercian Abbey in Irving, Texas, for more than 50 years. Hunter Johnson TNS DALLAS -- Fr. Roch Kereszty may seem like just another monk at ...

Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, smiles after U.S. President Barack Obama awards her the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...