In a recorded talk he gave on Celtic monasticism, he explains that Irish monks associated pilgrimage with a kind of martyrdom. He describes a practice of seafaring monks boarding a boat, probably a ...

If you know a little about Eastern monasticism, you know a great deal about Eastern Orthodoxy. Monasticism began on a Sunday morning in the year 270 or 271 in an Egyptian village. The Gospel ...

Basil of Caesarea (died 379) reformed monasticism in some parts of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and turned it into something much more like present-day religious communities devoted to good works ...

In an oasis in the eastern desert of Egypt hidden deep in the Red Sea Mountains 140 miles southeast of Cairo, sits the oldest ...

2021. Books Received. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72, Issue. 3, p. 701. Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin ...

This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Hieromonk Michael on “Creation and Monasticism.” The “How-to” Green Your Parish series is an initiative of the Department of Inter-Orthodox, ...

No, Christians should not "stay in their lane." They should participate fully in the debates of our time and reclaim intellectual leadership.

St Basil the Great was a Christian teacher, theologian, and writer who lived from 329-380 CE. His influence on church history ...

The Ricostruttori community in Italy runs houses of prayer for people who are “drawn to spirituality but far from the Church.

Today in History for May 3: On this date: In 495, Pope St. Gelasius I decreed that his spiritual power as supreme pontiff was superior to the temporal power of Emperor Anastasius. It was called the ...

Available in English and Arabic, the tour allows Egyptians and foreigners to virtually tour four monasteries in Wadi ...

Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of ...