My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

The Ruthenian Bishop of Parma last week erected Christ the Bridegroom Monastery as a female monastery sui iuris of eparchial right. The decision was made "in light of the present circumstances and the ...

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 ...

An unexpected, yet wonderful visitor woke up a woman who was staying at a 13th-century monastery in Italy. The TikTok user @socialmediaamy was staying at the Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, or Church of St ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

A makeshift chapel in the bomb shelter nuns have prepared to take shelter in when air raids go off, at the Hoshiv Women's Monastery, where nuns have been taking in internally displaced people fleeing ...

A so-called all-male "holy mountain" in northern Greece has hosted Christian monasteries for nearly 2,000 years, with women strictly prohibited. But one woman may have somehow found a home there — at ...

A woman's decapitated body has been discovered in a remote forest, two weeks after severed hands - also believed to belong to ...