California estate designed by late architect John Hudson Thomas and inspired by a French monastery has just hit the market ...

Some things change, some things remain the same, but a town of culture is permanent – the 64th edition of the Hvar Summer Festival kicks off tomorrow. Many years ago, I was walking along the coastline ...

Many prayers were answered yesterday when a stunning Connemara monastery was named as the public’s choice of architectural ...

The Benedictine Monastery at Kylemore Abbey by Axo Architects has been revealed as the winner of the prestigious 2025 Royal ...

Living a hidden life of contemplative prayer, they nonetheless have a profound impact on the people of Zimbabwe. A ministry ...

Luther, a monk famous – some would say infamous – for nailing a 95-point critique of Catholicism to the door of a church in Wittenberg, arranged for a merchant who delivered herring to Nimbschen Abbey ...

After growing up attending St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School in Woodbridge and Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, ...

St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass is back on the market after its undisclosed potential buyer terminated the contract. The 3,700-acre property was listed last April for $150 million.

Sister Maria Gloria Riva from a cloistered, contemplative monastery in the small state of San Marino in Italy, was the ...

A longtime lover of castles, Neil Tuller knew he wanted to buy the Hume Cloister, a sprawling Berkeley, Calif., home fashioned after a French monastery, even before he saw it in person.

The seller spent close to $2 million and several years renovating Hume Cloister, a historic property in Berkeley, Calif.

After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular warlord rulers, many of the formerly underground Christians converted to ...