The Basilica of St. Benedict in the ancient city of Norcia is seen Oct. 31 following an earthquake in central Italy. (Credit: CNS pohoto/Remo Casilli, Reuters.) Listen ROME – Before a series of ...

This liturgical form of prayer draws us closer to God throughout the day, uniting us with clergy, religious and laity around the world in the praise of God. The monks ...

A group of Buddhist monks walking thousands of miles across the country in a call for peace and unity arrived in Gwinnett ...

I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...

A group of Buddhist monks are walking from Texas to Washington DC to promote peace and unity. The 2,300-mile trek will take ...

The 'Walk for Peace' continues as the monks leave Atlanta today and head for Snellville. Their journey will continue across ...

SPARTA, Wis. — Eight times a day, the Rev. Bernard McCoy solemnly chants prayers in Latin from 100-year-old books in the chapel of his monastery. Then it’s back to his computer and telephone, to run ...

It sounds like the beginning of a dirty joke: “A lady novelist walks into a monastery . . .” but I am very serious about spending the weekend sleeping, meditating, singing, and praying with forty near ...

SPARTA, Wis. -- Eight times a day, the Rev. Bernard McCoy solemnly chants prayers in Latin from 100-year-old books in the chapel of his monastery. Then it is back to his computer and telephone, to run ...

CHICAGO -- A siren screamed down 31st Street as six men faced one another in a dim church and began to chant. They chanted standing up. They chanted bent over. Above a thumping bass from a passing car ...

In the central Italian countryside, at the edge of the Umbrian woods just outside Norcia, a group of Benedictine monks prays and works from well before the sun rises until it sets. This much has not ...

A Buddhist monk was praying Saturday when a bullet tore through the temple wall and killed him, police say. Another monk at the Buddhist Temple in High Point, North Carolina, found Tam Dinh Tran ...