In short—Graham summarizes—”become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world.” Benedictine Graham thinks of his own monastery “not as an asylum in which to escape from the ...

The only monks in the UK to brew an officially recognised Trappist beer say they are unable to satisfy demand. The brewery at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, near Coalville, Leicestershire, was set up ...

Home to a small community of less than 30 Trappist monks, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit was established back in 1944 when a group of monks left an abbey in Kentucky with the goal of founding a ...

The Trappist order of monks was born in the 17th century, in La Grande Trappe Abbey in Normandy. The Abbot there wanted his monks to adhere to the strict Rule of St. Benedict – an ancient guide ...

U.S. sales of beer brewed in Belgium are expected to reach $3.3 billion, but many, and probably most, Americans are ...

One dawn last week black-cowled Death came to a frail little man lying on a straw pallet in a hushed Kentucky monastery, oldest in the U. S. Soon black-cowled Trappist monks broke their habitual ...

The TRAPPIST-1 solar system, depicted in this artist's impression, might harbor Earth clones with ... [+] oceans and rich atmospheres. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images ...

We’re sitting in the office of Trappist Caskets, just a short walk from New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa. Sam is a layman, not a monk, but he works with the consecrated men as the general ...