Catholic life throughout the region was often sustained quietly through family networks, informal gathering places, and the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Catholic monk came out as transgender this month, saying the church ...

Father Jacques Mourad, a Syrian Catholic monk who was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in 2015 and managed to escape after five months in captivity, was consecrated as the new ...

Inside the 100-year-old-plus Benedictine monastery, located in the town of Belmont, a suburb of Charlotte, Abbot Solari answered questions in a quiet voice, reflecting on his 23 years as abbot at ...

The cover of Michael O'Brien's new book, 'Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks.' In the book, O'Brien shares his experiences growing up among the Trappist monks and the ...

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Three Roman Catholic monks are fighting to keep alive a monastic cheese-making tradition in Bosnia that has been passed down by word of mouth for 130 years. The pale ...

A Chicago-area religious order of monks said this week they are ending their affiliation with a DuPage County Catholic high school, which in recent months hired a woman in a same-sex marriage to coach ...

A Catholic monk in Kentucky has come out publicly as a transgender man and claims to be the first person in his position to do so. Brother Christian Matson, 39, a Catholic hermit in the Diocese of ...