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June 2015

June 28, 2015

Journey to Genesee: “Those who think they have arrived have lost their way”

I spent Saturday afternoon visiting with my sister, who lives part of the year in...

June 28, 2015

Journey to Genesee: “Those who think they have arrived have lost their way”

I spent Saturday afternoon visiting with my sister, who lives part of the year in...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

Charges of embezzlement, sex scandal at Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky

From The Louisville Courier-Journal: Nestled on 2,200 acres in the hills of Nelson County, the...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Raise a glass tonight to the men who invented champagne: monks!

From my blog neighbor Frank Weathers: Let me just skip you straight to the Wikipedia...

December 16, 2013

US to open first Trappist brewery outside Europe

Details: Beer probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind when you think of...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

Next time you type an email address, thank a monk

Researchers say monks invented one of the most commonly used internet abbreviations. From Huffington Post: ...

August 23, 2013

The Brew Evangelization

With beer! From CNS: Even before retired Pope Benedict XVI set up a pontifical council...

July 2013

July 01, 2013

UPDATE: Franciscans Deny Priests Killed in Syria: “The Monks Are Still Alive”

Note: I've removed an earlier report from this blog indicating that the Vatican had confirmed...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Praise Cheeses: Trappists Keep Alive Tradition in Bosnia

Details: Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in...

January 2013

January 19, 2013

Closed abbey searching for another religious group to take it over

You'll remember that the Blue Cloud Abbey closed its doors last summer. Now, the search...

January 11, 2013

Amazing: how monks rebuilt a monastery from Spain in California

From the New York Times: The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

The latest Trappist business: ice cream

They've given us everything from fruitcake and fudge to candy and soap and even bonsai...

September 04, 2012

Trappist monastery vandalized near Jerusalem

Details, from Haaretz: The Catholic Church condemned the so-called "price-tag" attack against an Christians monastery...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

“Listen…”

"Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart...

June 2012

June 11, 2012

South Dakota monastery announces it’s closing this summer

It's the Blue Cloud Abbey, and the abbot posted the following message on its website...

June 04, 2012

How silence works: “It is an aid, not an end in itself”

What's it like to live with a vow of silence? Writer Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston wanted to...

April 2012

April 10, 2012

“Whatever slender thread is holding our planet together just might stem from these monastic women…”

An alert reader sent this my way: a reflection by broadcast journalist Judith Valente about...

April 04, 2012

Building a monastery the medieval way

It's an ambitious undertaking that will be launched in Germany next year -- and will...

February 2012

February 13, 2012

Silence 101: College course teaches how to live like a monk

You have to go to school now to learn?? Details: Looking for a wild-and-crazy time...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Remember this? A classic Super Bowl ad from 1976 starring a monk

With all the buzz these days about the upcoming Super Bowl ads, I thought this...

December 2011

December 11, 2011

What the modern world could learn about compassion from monks

A British writer just back from a monastic retreat shares some insight into welfare and...

December 10, 2011

December 10, 1941: “I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom…”

It was 70 years ago today -- December 10, 1941 -- that Thomas Merton arrived...

August 2011

August 12, 2011

Meet the Trappists' 100-year-old monk

I had the good fortune of meeting him a few years back, when he was...

July 2011

July 30, 2011

Wanted: cowmonks

A monastery that once ran one of the largest ranching operations in North Dakota is...

July 06, 2011

"I want you to live in this circle…"

Below, a gorgeously produced video celebrating one of my favorite places, the Monastery of the...

April 2011

April 19, 2011

Exquisite love, exquisite heartbreak: the last testament of Dom Christian

He was one of the monks beheaded by Muslim extremists in Algiers in 1996 --...

March 2011

March 01, 2011

"My little job was to tell their story…"

The acclaimed film about the Trappist monks murdered in Algeria had a "monastic advisor" on...

February 2011

February 21, 2011

Legendary Trappist Fr. Matthew Kelty dies

Another tall tree in the forest has fallen. I had the good fortune of hearing...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

A first look at "Of Gods and Men"

For my money, this is the first must-see movie of 2011. I read the book...