Monasteries look like idyllic places where time stands still, and your soul enjoys complete peace. These stone buildings with their gardens and intricate iconography look like heaven on earth, but the ...

What is a Prophet of Peace, and why would a monastery choose to honor one each year?

(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 ...

Catherine Coldstream’s decade-long stay in a monastery is a deeply personal journey from a chaotic childhood to a place of calm and contemplation. It’s also a suspenseful story about the inner ...

See inside the Carmelite Monastery in Terre Haute. It is a cloistered order where 11 nuns fill their days with prayer, silence, solitude and community.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Founded last year in one of Europe’s most secular societies, the Kirikla Orthodox Monastery is the first monastery the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church has established in ...

People walk into the St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass for the monastery’s last public liturgy on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. The monastery was sold to Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, for $120 million.

Estonia Monastery Bishop Damaskinos, centre left, prays during the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of the newly founded Kirikla Orthodox Monastery in Pihali village, Estonia, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: ...