MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known ...
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Marin, charity plan housing in former monastery
The project will create nine apartments with support services in a wing of the former Carmelite Monastery of the Mother of ...
Vatican City has new tenants: seven nuns from Argentina who, at the request of Pope Francis, will live in Mater Ecclesiae (“Mother of the Church”), the monastery where Pope Benedict XVI resided for ...
The Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens is seen in this file photo from February 2013 when it was undergoing remodeling to serve as the residence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. (CNS ...
An unexpected, yet wonderful visitor woke up a woman who was staying at a 13th-century monastery in Italy. The TikTok user @socialmediaamy was staying at the Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, or Church of St ...
It started when I was assigned a story to write about a religious sister professing her final vows. Within the year, I'd returned to the monastery to work on a writing project demanding more mental ...
Every once in a while growing up, the old funny bone got tickled in the middle of church, and the spontaneous sillies erupted during a time of sacred silence. Keeping a lid on it in such times seemed ...
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar has reduced many buildings to rubble - Copyright AFP/File Brendan SMIALOWSKI A 7.7-magnitude earthquake that ...
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar has reduced many buildings to rubble Mandalay has suffered some of the worst damage from the 7.7-magnitude earthquake Bare-handed monks slowly ...
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