The day begins in darkness, lit only by street lamps. As dawn breaks, a pale blue light reveals a quiet line of monks in ...

The Basilica of St. Benedict in the ancient city of Norcia is seen Oct. 31 following an earthquake in central Italy. (Credit: CNS pohoto/Remo Casilli, Reuters.) Listen ROME – Before a series of ...

I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...

At the core of any Buddhist tradition is the philosophy that life is impermanent. One day, everything in existence will end, ...

DELAND -- The monks already spend much of their time in prayer, but for the last two years they've added an unusual request to their daily devotion: help with a construction project that a contractor ...

SPARTA, Wis. — Eight times a day, the Rev. Bernard McCoy solemnly chants prayers in Latin from 100-year-old books in the chapel of his monastery. Then it’s back to his computer and telephone, to run ...

God and Mammon have joined forces in Moldova, where Eastern Orthodox monks will be paid to pray for profits by a leading financial group looking for an antidote to the former Soviet republic’s ...

Wrapped in orange robes, Oh Bah Seh, a Buddhist monk, shows a visitor a scar on his head - compliments of a police baton. "We were chanting the loving kindness prayer, and the military police began to ...

In the central Italian countryside, at the edge of the Umbrian woods just outside Norcia, a group of Benedictine monks prays and works from well before the sun rises until it sets. This much has not ...

If a restaurateur could be likened to a music genre, then chef Aaron May is punk rock. The well-known Valley chef and restaurateur does what he wants, the way he wants to, and with zero apologies. And ...