The Irish Times29d
As Pope Francis battled against ill health this week, the Catholic community in Ireland lost two great leaders
Today, Kylemore Abbey is central to Irish tourism and ... in classics and taught at Oxford before she entered a German Benedictine Monastery. She was modestly famous in Germany, where she was ...
America Magazine18d
Seeing what is holy in every religious tradition: Lessons from 100 retreats at a Camaldolese monastery
Therese lived alone in a little cabin in an unpeopled valley reached by a dirt road that was part of a Benedictine monastery. She’d stayed there for a quarter of a century with her husband Eric ...
thecooldown17d
Woman's visit to monastery sparks eye-opening revelation about society's biggest issues: 'We must be at the forefront'
Molly Burhans had a stunning realization during her visit to a Benedictine monastery in Pennsylvania: The Catholic Church owns or stewards a significant amount of land — roughly the equivalent of the ...
Historic UK28d
Westminster Abbey
Situated in the grounds of a former Benedictine monastery, it was re-founded as the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster by Queen Elizabeth I in 1560. Known as the ‘House of Kings’, until ...