As the world gets louder, places of quiet sound more appealing. Enter the increasingly popular travel niche of monastery retreats. You'll find accommodations offered by communities of monks (and nuns ...

The archives at Le Monastère des Augustines have recently earned recognition from UNESCO. The tradition of wellness goes back—way back—at Le Monastère des Augustines in Quebec City. It began in 1639, ...

“God is as close to me than a pinch between my fingers. He’s in all this stuff of life.” That was a paraphrase of Meister Eckhart, famed medieval mystic, by The Rev. Maurice recently, near the end of ...

FREMONT—In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaven heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and ...

I made my annual retreat at the Trappist Abbey, a Catholic monastery for men, this past week. Situated just outside Lafayette, Ore., the Trappists recently inaugurated an attractive new chapel with ...

Pope Francis has chosen a Benedictine monk of “great culture” and one of the chief architects of a 2015 conference in Florence on Christian humanism to preach at his Lenten retreat in March. Olivetan ...

FREMONT — In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaved heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 11—Passionist Nuns of St. Joseph Monastery held a groundbreaking Saturday for the retreat center expansion, adding a Holy ...

Unable to get to Brookland, Beallsville or Berryville? Create a monastic retreat at home. "If you could do it about every six to eight weeks, it'd be great," health psychologist Susan Nathan says.

Recently, I had the unique opportunity to experience a men’s silent retreat at the Carmelite Monastery in Alhambra, California. It was an irreplaceable spiritual exercise — a profound encounter with ...