I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...

When the restaurant gods shutter a Monk, they open a Bootlegger. At least that’s the case with Praying Monk, restaurateur and chef Aaron May’s stylish American beer cafe in Old Town Scottsdale opened ...

At Assumption Abbey in Richardton, Benedictine monks continue a daily rhythm of prayer, work and simple living, welcoming ...

Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. In the months before Thomas Merton entered the Trappist monastery of Abbey of Gethsemani, he went there on ...

A siren screamed down 31st Street as six men faced one another in a dim church and began to chant. They chanted standing up. They chanted bent over. Above a thumping bass from a passing car, they ...

A Buddhist monk was praying Saturday when a bullet tore through the temple wall and killed him, police say. Another monk at the Buddhist Temple in High Point, North Carolina, found Tam Dinh Tran ...