An Oct. 11 fire severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered ...
Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned last year as the archbishop of Boston in the wake of child sex scandals involving priests there, is making a private retreat at a Benedictine monastery near ...
In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...