Here’s something Sr. Mary Agatha, your 8th-grade math teacher, never taught you. Before Hindu-Arabic numerals were widespread throughout Christendom, the Cistercian monks throughout Europe in the ...

On the feast of St. David, the Cistercian nuns of Whitland talk of the beauty of their life and offer strategies from monastery life for living well during the pandemic. Contemplative life at Holy ...

Archaeologists excavating a 13th-century Cistercian monastery in Ireland have found unique traces of its medieval inhabitants, reports Louise Walsh for the Irish Independent. Among the discoveries ...

The head of the Cistercian Order in Ireland has said he knows the decision to relocate the monastic community from Co Tipperary to Co Louth will be met with "great disappointment locally". Dom Rufus ...

SPENCER (AP) -- For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the world. Eight monasteries -- ...