In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County, Ky. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

Finding peace at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit Home to a small community of less than 30 Trappist monks, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit was established back in 1944 when a group of monks left an ...

One dawn last week black-cowled Death came to a frail little man lying on a straw pallet in a hushed Kentucky monastery, oldest in the U. S. Soon black-cowled Trappist monks broke their habitual ...

AVA, Mo. -- When the monks of Assumption Abbey could no longer support themselves by producing cement blocks, they decided to make fruitcake. Fifteen years and thousands of cakes later, there is no ...