For the first time since 1835, the monks of the Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery in Spain — known for their Gregorian chant — have been forced to abandon the seclusion of their cells. However, this ...

On Aug. 1, Benedictine monks moved into the emblematic Solignac Abbey in west-central France after a 230-year absence. It is the first time since the French Revolution that the Benedictines have ...

In Norway, as in all the Nordic countries, the Middle Ages have traditionally been considered a Catholic period — and while the country ranks among the least religious nations in the world today, the ...

Since 1183, seven times a day starting at 5:15 a.m., the monks at Austria’s monastery of Heiligenkreuz have been singing Gregorian chant, in unison and in Latin. They recorded this disc, they write, ...

Behind the gray stone walls of the 900-year-old Grande Chartreuse monastery, high in the French Alps, two monks dry, crush, and sort 130 herbs and spices into burlap bags. The "plants room" where they ...