The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has been asked to assist the Central Investigation Bureau's (CIB) probe into ...

The Sangha Supreme Council (SSC) will form a special committee to revise monastic regulations following a high-profile sex scandal involving 11 monks and a woman known as 'Miss Golf'.After a special ...

A Monastic Christmas Fair: How laypeople in Spain are marketing monasteries to the modern world Bridget Ryder December 22, 2023 Photo courtesy of Fundación Contemplare.

PM Mitsotakis of Greece visited the monastic state of Mount Athos today, describing it as "an enlightened center of spiritual ...

Mount Athos, referred to in Greek as the "Holy Mountain", is one of the most important centers of the Christian Orthodox ...

Namdol Phuntshok remembers carrying around rose beads and wearing only “red or yellow” so that her parents would understand her “calling” to become a nun. The young girl–when she failed to convince ...

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a spiritual retreat before filming begins for The Resurrection of ...

The monastic paella was derived from the Clarisa nuns of the Santa Clara Convent in Brieviesca, Burgos, Spain. The ingredients include jamon and chorizo. Convent Bread Pudding —CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS.

Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the ...

These monastic pioneers are not experts of focus; they are beginners like the rest of us, or perhaps (to use an oxymoron) expert beginners.

Jared Patrick Boyd, founder of the Order of the Common Life (OCL)—a “missional monastic order reimagining religious vocations for the 21st century”—affirms a communal rule of life that is ...