(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...

More than a hundred of us slowly ascend the steep asphalt road that leads to the top of a mountain overlooking Deer Park Monastery, a 400-acre Buddhist monastic community in Escondido. We walk in ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding ...