The regime at Our Lady of Silence will be removed from the austerities of La Trappe. The rules on diet, work and silence ...

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland ...

Irish history and culture have found an audience far beyond our motherland of Ireland and it would do us no harm to remember ...

HUNDREDS of people flocked to a historic abbey yesterday ahead of a ‘difficult’ closure. Mount Melleray Abbey in Waterford, ...

Last weekend as we turned the corner and the huge edifice of Mount Melleray Abbey loomed over us, the bells were still ...

The treasure of our faith is found in the Gospel. It is full of hope. When we observe how Jesus interacted with people, we ...

Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights.

Several pilgrims are expected to visit the site throughout the week, with the order saying that there have been many ...

From mummies to werewolves to ghosts, ‘The Catholic Handbook’ offers a collection of spiritual and paranormal oddities.

Even as Ohio State turned around its season with three playoff wins, coach Ryan Day turned around his reputation by evolving ...