My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

Viewed today more as a personal voyage of discovery than a physical journey, pilgrim walking slows down frenetic living and allows us time to see events around us in their true perspective. Forced to ...

For many of us it’s impossible to contemplate a monastic existence of prayer and self-denial on this bacchanalia known as St.Patrick’s Day. Notorious for overindulgence, the holiday sustains few of ...

COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND—The Irish Independent reports that archaeologists led by Geraldine Stout have uncovered pottery; the bones of cows, sheep, cats, and dogs; seeds; nuts; a key; a timber dash-urn ...

The second day of Brian Slocum's Ireland trip takes him to a 6th century Christian monastery. Make sure to check back often for Brian's videos!

An Oklahoma Catholic Benedictine community has opened what may be the first monastery to open in Ireland since 1536. The religious community in the priory has been steadily growing since 2012 and ...

A former country mansion in Co Meath is set to be transformed into a monastery as part of a $1 million development by two Benedictine monks. The Irish Examiner reports the monks purchased the property ...

COUNTY DONEGAL, IRELAND—A monastic enclosure dating to the early seventh century has been uncovered at Drunholm, where tradition claims Christian St. Ernan, nephew of St. Columba, was buried ca. A.D.

Redemptorist Father John Hanna in the library of Clonard Monastery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which hosted the peace talks leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. (Credit: Claire Giangravè.) ...

ROSTREVOR, Northern Ireland — In the foothills of the Mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland, a Benedictine community from France has taken up the challenge to help heal the wounds and sectarian ...