Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded delicately in his lap. As a monk at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, he maintains that Roman Catholic ...

The Norwegian Trappist monk chosen to preach the Vatican’s Lenten retreat once called himself an atheist — and today is one ...

The monks of New Melleray Abbey sing in prayer during Lauds at the Trappist Monastery near Dubuque on Sept. 8, 2025. The monks of the abbey follow the Benedictine practice of the Liturgy of the Hours, ...

The town of Spencer, in central Massachusetts, isn't well known for ... well, anything, really. But it's about to become internationally famous — at least in beer-drinking circles. Spencer is home to ...