Merton was quick to admit he had never taken psychedelic drugs, and it seems he never did. But he had searching questions and ...

Some people think that Christian monasticism began in the sixth century with Benedict of Nursia and his Rule of Life. But in fact it goes back far beyond that, to a time before there were ...

Can Western monasticism's "father," Benedict, still give us an antidote to cultural compromise? At first blush, this might seem unlikely, at least in the Western church. Between 1978 and 2004 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

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 ...

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 ...