As Advent unfolds in the far north, Bishop Erik Varden says the season's power lies not in cheerfulness but in hope -- "light shining at the darkest point of the night." ...

Trappist monks at Mount Saint Bernard abbey in Britain have turned part of their ancient halls into a brewery and volunteers are brewing beer in the ancient tradition that dates back to the 1860s. The ...

Nigerian Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi in an undated photo with a brother Cistercian at Mount St Bernard Abbey in Coalville, Leicestershire, England. (Credit: Mount St Bernard Abbey.) Listen ...

We’re living in an interesting moment for classic Trappist beer—which is to say, beer brewed by Trappist Catholic monks in abbeys around the world. On one hand, the 2010s represented an era of new ...

The first sign that something was amiss to the masonry worker doing repairs on the ancient Mount St. Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire, England, on Monday were the two femur bones bound with rusting ...